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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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 e...

Pablo Picasso

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Pablo Picasso

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

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Pablo Picasso

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Pablo Picasso

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Pablo Picasso

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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