Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Quotes

• 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.