Quotes by
Pablo Picasso |
1881-1973 , Spanish painter
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer etc. who spent most of his adult life in France. He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.
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Quotations
| • | Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. 10 |
| • | What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing. 10 |
| • | The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. 9 |
| • | Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. 9 |
| • | Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. 8 |
| • | The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. 7 |
| • | You become young at sixty. Unfortunately this is too late. 6 |
| • | I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. 6 |
| • | Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. 6 |
| • | He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. 6 |
| • | Give me a museum and I'll fill it. 6 |
| • | People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age. 5 |
| • | Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. 5 |
| • | Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. 5 |
| • | Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. 5 |
| • | There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. 5 |
| • | You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. 5 |
| • | I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. 5 |
| • | All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. 5 |
| • | Action is the foundational key to all success. 5 |
| • | 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. 5 |
| • | If I don't have red, I use blue. 4 |
| • | Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. 4 |
| • | One must act in painting as in life, directly. 4 |
| • | Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. 4 |
| • | The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. 4 |
| • | I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. 4 |
| • | Love is the greatest refreshment in life. 4 |
| • | Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. 4 |
| • | Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. 4 |
| • | The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. 4 |
| • | You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words. 3 |
| • | My hand tells me what I’m thinking. 3 |
| • | You don't make art, you find it. 3 |
| • | All art is erotic. 3 |
| • | If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. 3 |
| • | Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. 3 |
| • | Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. 3 |
| • | You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. 3 |
| • | To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. 3 |
| • | We don’t grow older, we grow riper. 3 |
| • | To draw you must close your eyes and sing. 3 |
| • | Youth has no age. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. 3 |
| • | There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. 3 |
| • | I do not seek. I just find. 3 |
| • | It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. 3 |
| • | An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. 3 |
| • | Everything you can imagine is real. 3 |
| • | 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 don't start measuring her limbs. 3 |
| • | The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? 3 |
| • | It takes a long time to become young. 3 |
| • | The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense. 3 |
Personal Stories
| • | When I was a child, my mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. 5 |
