Pablo Picasso quotes

 quotes - Good artists copy, great artists steal.

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

— Pablo Picasso

 quotes - I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

— Pablo Picasso

 quotes - The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

“The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.”

— Pablo Picasso

 quotes - Action is the foundational key to all success.

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

— Pablo Picasso

 quotes - I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

— Pablo Picasso

“The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.”

— 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

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

— Pablo Picasso

“I do not seek. I find.”

— 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

“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 world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do”

— Pablo Picasso