Top 100 Picasso Pablo Quotes
#1. Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo Picasso
#4. What do you think an artist is? ... he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Pablo Picasso
#5. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
#7. You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.
Pablo Picasso
#8. Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
#9. Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
#11. No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.
Pablo Picasso
#12. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
#13. I see for others ... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
Pablo Picasso
#14. Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
Pablo Picasso
#15. So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
Pablo Picasso
#16. There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes
Pablo Picasso
#17. Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
Pablo Picasso
#18. We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.
Pablo Picasso
#20. I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
#23. When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.
Pablo Picasso
#24. The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
Pablo Picasso
#25. To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso
#26. I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.
Pablo Picasso
#27. I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.
Pablo Picasso
#28. There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.
Pablo Picasso
#30. Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
#31. Learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
#34. When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form ... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
Pablo Picasso
#35. I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
Pablo Picasso
#36. 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.
Pablo Picasso
#37. Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
Pablo Picasso
#38. We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
Pablo Picasso
#39. You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
Pablo Picasso
#40. I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
Pablo Picasso
#42. People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
Pablo Picasso
#43. We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.
Pablo Picasso
#44. Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
Pablo Picasso
#46. Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.
Steve Erickson
#47. Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
Pablo Picasso
#48. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.
Joseph Campbell
#49. The right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given ... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order ... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.
Pablo Picasso
#50. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
#51. If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
Pablo Picasso
#52. What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
Pablo Picasso
#53. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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#54. The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
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#55. Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.
Pablo Picasso
#56. It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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#57. Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.
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#58. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
#59. The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
Pablo Picasso
#60. If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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#62. Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
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#64. There are more copies than originals among people.
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#65. Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
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#67. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
#68. Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
Pablo Picasso
#69. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
#70. From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
Pablo Picasso
#71. I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
Pablo Picasso
#72. Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.
Pablo Picasso
#73. For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
Pablo Picasso
#74. Rhythm is a perception of time ... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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#75. Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
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#76. I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso
#77. I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
Pablo Picasso
#78. There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
Pablo Picasso
#79. It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.
Pablo Picasso
#80. To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.
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#81. Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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#82. Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working.
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#84. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
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#85. For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
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#86. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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#87. One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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#92. I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.
Pablo Picasso
#93. Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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#94. I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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#95. One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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#96. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
#97. Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.
Pablo Picasso
#98. To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
Pablo Picasso
#99. Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
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#100. Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
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