1881-1973, Spanish Artist
The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
Pablo Picasso – [Creativity]
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso – [Genius]
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso – [Techniques]
The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
Pablo Picasso – [Arts and Artists]
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
Pablo Picasso – [Arts and Artists]
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso – [Imitation]
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso – [Progress]
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 – [Arts and Artists]
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso – [Things and Little Things]
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso – [Faces]
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso – [Childhood]
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso – [Portraits]
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.
Pablo Picasso – [Color]
Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso – [Work]
You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are — two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs — and the best — he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.
Pablo Picasso – [Nudity]
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Pablo Picasso – [Trust]
Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso – [Youth]
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