Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
It takes a long time to become young.
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.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
I do not seek. I find.
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.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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.
Youth has no age.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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.
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
