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."

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

— Pablo Picasso

Art

All Quotes by Pablo Picasso

“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

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

— Pablo Picasso

Art

“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

“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

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

— Pablo Picasso

Success

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

— Pablo Picasso

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.”

— Pablo Picasso

Happiness

“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

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

— Pablo Picasso

History

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

— Pablo Picasso

Women

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

— Pablo Picasso

Life

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

— Pablo Picasso

Imagination

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

— Pablo Picasso

Art

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

— Pablo Picasso

Positive

“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

“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

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

— Pablo Picasso

Work

“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