Quotes By Pablo Picasso

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

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.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

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

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.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

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.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

One must act in painting as in life, directly.