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Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Pablo Picasso

Accident
2

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Pablo Picasso

Taste
3

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Pablo Picasso

Ideas
4

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

Arts and Artists
5

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Pablo Picasso

Censorship
6

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

Critics and Criticism
7

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

Pablo Picasso

Arts and Artists
8

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Pablo Picasso

Color
9

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

Computer
10

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Pablo Picasso

Disciple
11

Drink to me.

Pablo Picasso

Famous last words
12

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Pablo Picasso

Action
13

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Pablo Picasso

Children
14

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Pablo Picasso

Miracle
15

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

Imagination
16

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Pablo Picasso

God
17

Good artists copy, great artists steal

Pablo Picasso
18

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

Pablo Picasso

Achievement
19

I do not seek, I find.

Pablo Picasso

Creativity
20

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Pablo Picasso

Beauty
21

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

Painters and Painting
22

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
23

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
24

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

Pablo Picasso

Arts and Artists
25

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

Pablo Picasso

Vision
26

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Pablo Picasso

Sympathy
27

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

Pablo Picasso

Genius
28

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

Pablo Picasso

Purpose
29

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

Pablo Picasso

Indifference
30

It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

Age and Aging
31

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
32

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
33

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
34

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
35

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
36

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

Pablo Picasso

Detail
37

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

Painters and Painting
38

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Pablo Picasso

Sculpture
39

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

Pablo Picasso

Sculpture
40

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Pablo Picasso

Taste
41

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
42

The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Pablo Picasso

Creativity
43

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Pablo Picasso

Genius
44

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
45

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Pablo Picasso

Arts and Artists
46

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

Pablo Picasso

Arts and Artists
47

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Pablo Picasso

Imitation
48

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
49

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
50

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
51

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
52

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
53

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

Portrait
54

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
55

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Pablo Picasso

Work
56

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
57

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Pablo Picasso

Trust
58

Youth has no age.

Pablo Picasso

Youth

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Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

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.

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

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Drink to me.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Everything you can imagine is real.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Good artists copy, great artists steal

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

I do not seek, I find.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

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.

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

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

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

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

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

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

It takes a long time to become young.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

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.

The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

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

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Youth has no age.