Pablo Picasso

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”

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

“It takes a long time to become young.”

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

“Impara le regole come un professionista, in modo da poterle rompere come un artista.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky.”

“Youth has no age.”

“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.”

“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”

“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”

“Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.”

“We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”

“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

“When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”

“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!”

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

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”

“If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

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

“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 end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

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

“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”

“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”

“What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.”

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”

“You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.”

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

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

“Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?”

“The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.”

“To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”

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

“Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.”

“The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”

“God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.”

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

“My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as 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.”

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”

“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“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.”

“When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.”

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

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

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.”