44 quotes by Pablo Picasso

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Action is the foundational key to all success.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso

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“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.” — Pablo Picasso

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“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.” — Pablo Picasso

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“It takes a long time to become young.” — Pablo Picasso

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“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.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” — Pablo Picasso

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“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Youth has no age.” — Pablo Picasso

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“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” — Pablo Picasso

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“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.” — Pablo Picasso

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“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.” — Pablo Picasso

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“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” — Pablo Picasso

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“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.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso

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“We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.” — Pablo Picasso

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