Pablo Picasso quotes page 1

1881-1973, Spanish sculptor and painter

It takes a long time to grow young.
Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Pablo Picasso

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.
This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense. So why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the
help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
Pablo Picasso

The path to youth takes a whole life.
Pablo Picasso

You can't run a business without taking risks.
Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of
the birds?
Pablo Picasso

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes
something quite different.
Pablo Picasso

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
Pablo Picasso

When I was a child my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general.
If you become a monk, you'll be the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as
Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

Every positive value has its price in negative terms - the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation. It's a form of magic designed as mediator between
this strange hostile world and us.
Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove
all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

If I don't have red, I use blue.
Pablo Picasso

If I paint a wild horse you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness.
Pablo Picasso

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of
recognition,others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. 
So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off
acting capriciously.
Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove
all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

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