Quotes By Pablo Picasso

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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

Youth has no age.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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.

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

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.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.