Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

38 quotes

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."

“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

All Quotes by Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

Women

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

— Pablo Picasso

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.”

— 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

“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

“It takes a long time to become young.”

— Pablo Picasso

Age

“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”

— Pablo Picasso

Good

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

— Pablo Picasso

Work

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

— Pablo Picasso

Art

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

— 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

“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.”

— Pablo Picasso

Mom

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

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

— Pablo Picasso

Truth

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

— Pablo Picasso

Positive

“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

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

— Pablo Picasso

Life

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

— Pablo Picasso

Art

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

— Pablo Picasso

History

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

— Pablo Picasso

Success