Inspirational quotes by Pablo Picasso.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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.
It takes a very long time to become young.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
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 be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
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.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― 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.
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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