Pablo Picasso Quotes

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

Success, Action, Key

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

Art, Life, Daily

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

Problem, Child, Once

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

Mom, Mother, Soldier

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Children, Problem, Once

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

Good, Great, Artists

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

Computers, Give, Useless

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

Learning, May, Cannot

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

Imagination, Paint, Objects

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

Life, Art, Soul

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

Life, Work, Happiness

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

Tomorrow, Die, Put

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

Love, Life, Greatest

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

Women, Two, Types

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, Through, Plan

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

God, Real, Trying

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

Money, Live, Poor

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso

Child, Took, Four

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

Truth, Art, Lie

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

Positive, Negative, Genius

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso

Face, Behind, Inside

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

Art, Place, Artist

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

Art, Sun, Others

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso

Himself, Seen, Painting

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Pablo Picasso

Find, Working, Exists

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Artist

Born: October 25, 1881

Died: April 8, 1973

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