Pablo Picasso Quotes

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

Work, Life, Ultimate

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

Find, Working, Exists

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

Emotions, Changes, Follow

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

Art, Another, Painting

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Good, Enemy, Creativity

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

Today, Why, Sense

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

Age, Time, Long

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso

Law, Thinks, Inexorable

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

Work, Necessity, Clock

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

Give, Fill, Museum

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

Success, Others, Dangerous

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso

Others, Pathetic, Necessary

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso

Human, Face, Mirror

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso

Life, Act, Painting

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso

Eyes, Sing, Close

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, Give, Through

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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

Love, Beauty, Art

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

Truth, Art, Lie

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, Miracle, Bath

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

History, Accidents, Encounters

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

Brain, Eyes, Pull

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

Difficult, Loved, Oneself

I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Artist

Born: October 25, 1881

Died: April 8, 1973

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