Top 300 Pablo Picasso Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.”

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

103. “It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don’t care.”

— Pablo Picasso

104. “As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.”

— Pablo Picasso

105. “I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

— Pablo Picasso

106. “Basically the French are all peasants.”

— Pablo Picasso

107. “To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”

— Pablo Picasso

108. “All art is subversive.”

— Pablo Picasso

109. “I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.”

— Pablo Picasso

110. “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

111. “What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”

— Pablo Picasso

112. “You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.”

— Pablo Picasso

113. “If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”

— Pablo Picasso

114. “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

116. “Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It’s more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.”

— Pablo Picasso

117. “Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?”

— Pablo Picasso

118. “The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”

— Pablo Picasso

119. “That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.”

— Pablo Picasso

120. “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

— Pablo Picasso

121. “Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

— Pablo Picasso

122. “You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.”

— Pablo Picasso

123. “Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.”

— Pablo Picasso

124. “Everything exists in limited quantity – especially happiness.”

— Pablo Picasso

125. “One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.”

— Pablo Picasso

126. “We don’t grow older, we grow riper.”

— Pablo Picasso

127. “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

128. “A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.”

— Pablo Picasso

129. “Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one’s whole lifetime.”

— Pablo Picasso

130. “Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.”

— Pablo Picasso

131. “I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.”

— Pablo Picasso

132. “I draw like other people bite their nails.”

— Pablo Picasso

133. “This idea of art for art’s sake is a hoax.”

— Pablo Picasso

134. “The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”

— Pablo Picasso

135. “All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?”

— Pablo Picasso

136. “When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.”

— Pablo Picasso

137. “The path to youth takes a lifetime.”

— Pablo Picasso

138. “In art, practice always comes before theory.”

— Pablo Picasso

139. “Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.”

— Pablo Picasso

140. “Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”

— Pablo Picasso

141. “There’s nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.”

— Pablo Picasso

142. “It’s a poor artist who borrows – a good artist steals.”

— Pablo Picasso

143. “I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.”

— Pablo Picasso

144. “Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”

— Pablo Picasso

145. “Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn’t take place from form, from the physical world. You’ve got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.”

— Pablo Picasso

146. “For a long time I limited myself to one colour – as a form of discipline.”

— Pablo Picasso

147. “It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.”

— Pablo Picasso

148. “It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We’ve got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.”

— Pablo Picasso

149. “In the end there is only Matisse.”

— Pablo Picasso

150. “For me, there are two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats.”

— Pablo Picasso