Pablo Picasso

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...

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.

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

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity

Drink to me.

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

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

God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Youth has no age.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

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

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

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.

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 the sun.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

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

Art is the lie that tells the truth.

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

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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.

Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.

When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.

The path to youth takes a whole life.

Genius is personality with two measures of talent.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man that sells what he paints.

I don't work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

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.

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.

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