Pablo Picasso

Pablo PicassoPablo 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