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."

“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

All Quotes by Pablo Picasso

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

— Pablo Picasso

Life

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

— Pablo Picasso

Truth

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

— Pablo Picasso

Good

“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

“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

Art

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

— Pablo Picasso

Art

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

— Pablo Picasso

Success

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

— Pablo Picasso

Imagination

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

— Pablo Picasso

Positive

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

— Pablo Picasso

Women

“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”

— Pablo Picasso

Best

“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”

— Pablo Picasso

History

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

“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

“It takes a long time to become young.”

— Pablo Picasso

Age

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

— 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 is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

— Pablo Picasso

Work

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

— Pablo Picasso

Work