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Pablo Picasso
Quotes by Pablo Picasso
Quotes by Pablo Picasso
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Pablo Picasso
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Pablo Picasso
“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.”
Pablo Picasso
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
Pablo Picasso
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
Pablo Picasso
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
Pablo Picasso
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
Pablo Picasso
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
Pablo Picasso
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso
“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”
Pablo Picasso
“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”
Pablo Picasso
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Pablo Picasso
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Pablo Picasso
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
Pablo Picasso
“I do not seek. I find.”
Pablo Picasso
“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
Pablo Picasso
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
Pablo Picasso
“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”
Pablo Picasso
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
Pablo Picasso
“It takes a long time to become young.”
Pablo Picasso
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
Pablo Picasso
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
Pablo Picasso
“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Pablo Picasso
“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”
Pablo Picasso
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
Pablo Picasso
“The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.”
Pablo Picasso
“The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.”
Pablo Picasso
“The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do”
Pablo Picasso
