Quotes by

Pablo Picasso

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. – Pablo Picasso

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. – Pablo Picasso

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. – Pablo Picasso

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. – Pablo Picasso

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. – Pablo Picasso

Disciples be damned. Its not interesting. Its only the masters that matter. Those who create. – Pablo Picasso

If there were only one truth, you couldnt paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. – Pablo Picasso

Id like to live as a poor man with lots of money. – Pablo Picasso

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

I dont believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. – Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. – Pablo 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 dont start measuring her limbs. – Pablo Picasso

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 spiders web. – Pablo Picasso

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. – Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. – Pablo Picasso

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. – Pablo Picasso

There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats. – Pablo Picasso

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. – Pablo Picasso

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

Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso