Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

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Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso has a gift for language that makes complex ideas feel instantly clear. Their reputation for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore lends every quote an extra layer of authority. Explore 53 quotes by Pablo Picasso on subjects including Art, Work, Truth, Life, and Success — each one a window into a distinctive way of seeing the world. One standout: "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

“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

All Quotes by Pablo Picasso

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

— Pablo Picasso

Good

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

— Pablo Picasso

Truth

“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”

— Pablo Picasso

Women

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

— Pablo Picasso

Success

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

“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

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

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

— Pablo Picasso

Learning

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

— Pablo Picasso

Work

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

— Pablo Picasso

Money

“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

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

— Pablo Picasso

Art

“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”

— Pablo Picasso

Work

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

— Pablo Picasso

Art

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

— Pablo Picasso

Positive

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

“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

Art

“It takes a long time to become young.”

— Pablo Picasso

Age

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art