Quotes by Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

Life

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

— Pablo Picasso

Education

Action is the foundational key to all success.

— Pablo Picasso

Success

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 spider's web.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

It takes a long time to become young.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

— Pablo Picasso

Life

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

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

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

Youth has no age.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

— Pablo Picasso

Truth

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

— Pablo Picasso

Love

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

— Pablo Picasso

Wisdom

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

Success

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

Life

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

— Pablo Picasso

Life