Quotes by Pablo Picasso

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success. ”

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

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

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

“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.”

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

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

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”

“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 be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their im...”

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

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”