Pablo Picasso
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.Collection: Inspirational
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.Collection: Fashion
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.Collection: Laughter
There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyesCollection: Eye
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?Collection: Song
A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.Collection: Artist
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.Collection: Art
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.Collection: Loneliness
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!Collection: Horse
Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.Collection: Art
Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.Collection: Giving
It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.Collection: Letting Go
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.Collection: Kids
When I haven't any blue I use red.Collection: Blue
Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.Collection: Art
The more technique there is, the less there isCollection: Technique
Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.Collection: Green
It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.Collection: Strange
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.Collection: Birthday
Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.Collection: Names
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiographyCollection: Autobiography