Quotes by

Pablo Picasso

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

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. – Pablo Picasso

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. – Pablo Picasso

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. – Pablo Picasso

Good artists copy, great artists steal. – Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. – Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. – Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. – Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso

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. – Pablo Picasso

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. – Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. – Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Pablo Picasso

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Pablo Picasso

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

Youth has no age. – Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. – Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. – Pablo Picasso