“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
Good
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
SuccessAll Quotes by Pablo Picasso
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
Art“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
Money“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Imagination“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
Art“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”
Happiness“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
Art“We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”
Good“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
Art“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.”
God“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
Computers“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
Positive“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
Mom“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
History“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.”
Great“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Good“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.”
Work“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.”
Art“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
Work“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Art