Famous Quotes by Pablo Picasso (57 Quotations)

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

Pablo Picasso – [Fashion]

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.

Pablo Picasso – [Culture]

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Pablo Picasso – [Arts and Artists]

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

Pablo Picasso – [Vision]

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Pablo Picasso – [Sympathy]

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Pablo Picasso – [Genius]

It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Pablo Picasso – [Purpose]

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

Pablo Picasso – [Indifference]

It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso – [Age and Aging]

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso – [Drawing]

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Pablo Picasso – [Museums and Galleries]

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. –Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Pablo Picasso – [Individuality]

Now there is fame! Of all — hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public — fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Pablo Picasso – [Fame]

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Pablo Picasso – [Arts and Artists]

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite — that particular peach is but a detail.

Pablo Picasso – [Detail]

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso – [Painters and Painting]

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Pablo Picasso – [Sculptures]

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

Pablo Picasso – [Sculptures]

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Pablo Picasso – [Taste]

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.

Pablo Picasso – [Inspiration]