Pablo Picasso Quotes

Pablo Picasso Biography
Type: Artist
Nationality: Spanish
Born: October 25, 1881
Died: April 8, 1973

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; during the first decade of the 20th century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th century art.

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso

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

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

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

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo Picasso

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