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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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

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

Pablo Picasso

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Pablo Picasso

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Pablo Picasso

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It ...

Pablo Picasso

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Pablo Picasso

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

Pablo Picasso

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language ...

Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they woul...

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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Pablo Picasso

To find is the thing.

Pablo Picasso

It takes a very long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

Pablo Picasso

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

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

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

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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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.

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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