02UndatedOthers have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
03UndatedI am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
05UndatedWe 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.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
06UndatedGod 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 / quote ↗
10UndatedWhy 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.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
11UndatedEvery child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
13UndatedOnly put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undonePablo Picasso / quote ↗
14UndatedWhen 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.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
15UndatedThere 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 sunPablo Picasso / quote ↗
17UndatedWhat 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 / quote ↗
18UndatedThere is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
19UndatedWhen 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 / quote ↗
22UndatedEveryone 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.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
23UndatedEvery act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso / quote ↗
24UndatedEvery 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 / quote ↗
