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

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

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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

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

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Pablo Picasso

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

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