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Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and art theorist. He is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
His childhood years in Barcelona were difficult, and his relationship with his family was strained through much of his life. His father was a professor of art who taught at the Royal Academy in Barcelona, but he never recognized Pablo’s talent as an artist.
He got interested in painting at an early age and spent time copying images out of books by artists such as Eugène Delacroix. His father pushed him to become a successful businessman, but Picasso resisted this path. There are over 1300 pieces of Picasso’s art in museums around the world.
His revolutionary artistic techniques are still being used today by artists around the world.
69 Inspiring Pablo Picasso Quotes
“The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.”
“Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.”
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“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.”
“Accidents, try to change them — it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.”
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
“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.”
“We don’t grow older we grow riper.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
“He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”
“If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.”
“Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”
“One starts to get young at sixty, and then it’s too late“
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
“You can’t run a business without taking risks.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.”
“People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”
“You mustn’t always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.”
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
“Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.”
“It takes a long time to become young.”
“People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age…”
“I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
“When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
“Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.”
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.”
“Of course, you can paint pictures by matching up different parts of them so that they go nicely together, but they’ll lack any kind of drama.”
“I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.”
“Youth has no age.”
“What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.”
“There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.”
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
“I do not seek. I find.”
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
“Color, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“We don’t grow older, we grow riper.”
“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
“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.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
“I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.”
“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.”
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
“Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized. People just don’t have that much vision.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“We don’t grow older, we grow riper.”
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the songs of a bird?”
