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."

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“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

All Quotes by Pablo Picasso

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”

— Pablo Picasso

Success

“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.”

— Pablo Picasso

God

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

— Pablo Picasso

Women

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

— Pablo Picasso

Good

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

— Pablo Picasso

Learning

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

— Pablo Picasso

Truth

“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

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

— 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

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

— Pablo Picasso

Positive

“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.”

— Pablo Picasso

Happiness

“Youth has no age.”

— Pablo Picasso

Age

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

— Pablo Picasso

Life

“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

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

— 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

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

— Pablo Picasso

Imagination

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

— Pablo Picasso

Art