Pablo Picasso Quotes

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 everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Great, Real, Everything

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso

Truth, Same, Paint

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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

Thought, Idea, Point

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso

Else, Idea, Begin

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso

Everyone, Face, Himself

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Pablo Picasso

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso

Harmony, Hidden, Obvious

We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Pablo Picasso

Tell, Lies, Questions

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

Art, Reality, Start

Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso

Beautiful, Problems, Speak

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

Genius, Hiroshima, Einstein

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

Matter, Create, Masters

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

Wind, Older, Face

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso

Whole, Painting, Opposite

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso

Truth, Art, Lie

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

Art, Business, Mostly

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Pablo Picasso

Down, Die, Around

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso

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

Why, Others, Seen

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso

Might, Line, Along

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

Best, Painting, Painter

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

Worry, Less, Technique

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Artist

Born: October 25, 1881

Died: April 8, 1973

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