Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso

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

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Pablo Picasso


Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Pablo Picasso

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

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo Picasso

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