Pablo Picasso quotes

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

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

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.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Youth has no age.

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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

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

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

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

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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.

It takes a long time to become young.

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.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

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

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.

It takes a long time to become young.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

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

Youth has no age.

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.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.