54 Quotes By Pablo Picasso


It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso on age

Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso on age

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

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.
Pablo Picasso on art

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso on art

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso on art

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso on art

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso on art

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso on art

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 on art

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso on art

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso on art

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.
Pablo Picasso on art

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso on art

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso on art

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 on beauty

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso on best

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso on business

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso on computers

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.
Pablo Picasso on god