Pablo Picasso quotes.
All 31 quotations by Pablo Picasso in our collection.
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not”
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
“Youth has no age.”
“The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.”
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“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.”
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
“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.”
“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
“It takes a long time to become young.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”
“I do not seek. I find.”
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”
“When art critics get together, they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together, they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
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