Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
Pablo Picasso Quotes
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso
There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.
—Pablo Picasso
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
—Pablo Picasso
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
—Pablo Picasso
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
—Pablo Picasso
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
—Pablo Picasso
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
—Pablo Picasso
It takes a very long time to become young.
—Pablo Picasso
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
—Pablo Picasso
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.
—Pablo Picasso
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
—Pablo Picasso
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
—Pablo Picasso
Youth has no age.
—Pablo Picasso
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
—Pablo Picasso
I do not seek. I find.
—Pablo Picasso
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
—Pablo Picasso
To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
—Pablo Picasso
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
—Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
—Pablo Picasso
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
—Pablo Picasso
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
—Pablo Picasso
Action is the foundational key to all success.
—Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
—Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
—Pablo Picasso
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
—Pablo Picasso
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
—Pablo Picasso
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
—Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
—Pablo Picasso
The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
—Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
—Pablo Picasso