Top 300 Pablo Picasso Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.”

— Pablo Picasso

52. “We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.”

— Pablo Picasso

53. “Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.”

— Pablo Picasso

54. “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”

— Pablo Picasso

55. “When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.”

— Pablo Picasso

56. “Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”

— Pablo Picasso

57. “When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays...”

— Pablo Picasso

58. “If you’re stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.”

— Pablo Picasso

59. “People who read are people who dream.”

— Pablo Picasso

60. “Computers are stupid.”

— Pablo Picasso

61. “If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.”

— Pablo Picasso

62. “When I haven’t any blue I use red.”

— Pablo Picasso

63. “We have learned nothing.”

— Pablo Picasso

64. “I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.”

— Pablo Picasso

65. “Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.”

— Pablo Picasso

66. “While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.”

— Pablo Picasso

67. “If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn’t tell you.”

— Pablo Picasso

68. “When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.”

— Pablo Picasso

69. “A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.”

— Pablo Picasso

70. “I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.”

— Pablo Picasso

71. “Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.”

— Pablo Picasso

72. “You don’t make art, you find it.”

— Pablo Picasso

73. “I don’t develop; I am.”

— Pablo Picasso

74. “Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can’t even imagine in advance.”

— Pablo Picasso

75. “If it’s good, it’s mine. If it’s bad, it’s a fake.”

— Pablo Picasso

76. “Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”

— Pablo Picasso

77. “To find is the thing.”

— Pablo Picasso

78. “The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.”

— Pablo Picasso

79. “Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.”

— Pablo Picasso

80. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.”

— Pablo Picasso

81. “If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?”

— Pablo Picasso

82. “Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”

— Pablo Picasso

83. “I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who “appreciate” beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There’s no such thing. I never “appreciate,” any more than I “like.” I love it or I hate.”

— Pablo Picasso

84. “Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.”

— Pablo Picasso

85. “Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.”

— Pablo Picasso

86. “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.”

— Pablo Picasso

87. “Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.”

— Pablo Picasso

88. “Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it’s true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That’s what’s important.”

— Pablo Picasso

89. “Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”

— Pablo Picasso

90. “Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can’t drink any more.”

— Pablo Picasso

91. “Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?”

— Pablo Picasso

92. “What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.”

— Pablo Picasso

93. “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”

— Pablo Picasso

94. “When you’re really young, you’re young for life.”

— Pablo Picasso

95. “I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.”

— Pablo Picasso

96. “Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

— Pablo Picasso

97. “If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.”

— Pablo Picasso

98. “People don’t realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.”

— Pablo Picasso

99. “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.”

— Pablo Picasso

100. “Disciples be damned. It’s not interesting. It’s only the masters that matter. Those who create.”

— Pablo Picasso