Pablo Picasso
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Truth
Action is the foundational key to all success.Collection: Success
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.Collection: Women
Good artists copy, great artists steal.Collection: Good
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Collection: Art
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.Collection: Love
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.Collection: Work
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.Collection: Work
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.Collection: God
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.Collection: Truth
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Happiness
Everything you can imagine is real.Collection: Imagination
It takes a long time to become young.Collection: Birthday
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.Collection: Art
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.Collection: History
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.Collection: Computers
I do not seek. I find.Collection: Brainy
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Collection: Life
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Work
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Art
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Success
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.Collection: Art
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.Collection: Art
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.Collection: Brainy
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Mom
Youth has no age.Collection: Age
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.Collection: Business
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.Collection: Money
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.Collection: Learning
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.Collection: Success
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.Collection: Imagination
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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.
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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.
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.