Pablo Picasso Quotes

“A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”

“The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.”

“All Children are Artists”

“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's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.”

“The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.”

“If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.”

“I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.”

“When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.”

“Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.”

“The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.”

“There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?”

“The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!”

“Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.”

“It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.”

“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.”

“You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.”

“If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?”

“I paint what I think, not what I see.”

“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”

“Good designers copy; great designers steal.”

“What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.”

“I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.”

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”