Quotes by Pablo Picasso

About Pablo Picasso:

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Pablo Picasso

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Pablo Picasso

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Pablo Picasso

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Pablo Picasso

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Pablo Picasso

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Pablo Picasso

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Pablo Picasso

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

Pablo Picasso

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

Pablo Picasso

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Pablo Picasso

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Every 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

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Pablo Picasso

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the inva...

Pablo Picasso

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is ...

Pablo Picasso

When 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

Author Bio

  • NamePablo Picasso
  • DescriptionSpanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
  • AliasesPablo Ruiz y Picasso
  • BornOctober 25, 1881
  • DiedApril 8, 1973
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionPainter; Sculptor; Graphic Designer; Printmaker; Choreographer; Ceramist; Affichiste
  • WorksGuernica; Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
  • AwardsLenin Peace Prize