54 Quotes By Pablo Picasso


Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso on good

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso on good

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 on good

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso on great

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 on great

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 on happiness

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso on history

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso on imagination

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

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso on learning

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

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 on life

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

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso on life

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso on love

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 love

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso on mom

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

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso on success