Picasso quotes

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Every artist is first an amateur.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Painting is stronger than me. It makes me do its bidding.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

Give me your heart and I will give you art.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

I don’t seek, I find.

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Picasso quotes part 2

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

It takes a long time to become young.

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

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

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.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or nothing but muscles if he is a boxer? Quite the contrary, he is at the same time a political being constantly alert to the heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

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

If I don’t have red, I use blue.

It takes a long time to become young.

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.

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.