Pablo Picasso Quotes

1881-1973, Spanish Artist
quotes
57
topics
12
Origin
What do these mean?
Topic
“Youth has no age.”
Youth
“I do not seek, I find.”
Creativity
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Imagination
“Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
Taste
“It takes a long time to become young.”
Age and Aging
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
Sculptures
“The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
Genius
“The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.”
Creativity
“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”
Arts and Artists
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
Computers
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Arts and Artists
“It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.”
Purpose
“Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
Work
“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”
Color
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
Vision
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”
Action
“If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.”
Arts and Artists
“The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.”
Arts and Artists
“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”
Arts and Artists
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
Imitation
“Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?”
Sympathy
“I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.”
Achievement
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
Sculptures
“It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.”
Indifference
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
Taste
“Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.”
VerifiedQuote in Vogue, 1 November 1956. · evidenceAccidents
“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.”
DisputedNo reliable source from Pablo Picasso's lifetime: Linked to Picasso only from 1976, after his death. · evidenceChildren