Quotes by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor

Lived from: 1881 - 1973

Category: Artists Country: FlagSpain

Born: 25 october 1881 Died: 8 april 1973

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  • 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.
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  • Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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  • Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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  • An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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  • Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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  • Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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  • Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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  • Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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  • Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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  • Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
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  • Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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  • Everything you can imagine is real.
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  • Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
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  • 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.
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  • I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
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  • I do not seek, I find.
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  • I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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What are the most famous quotes from Pablo Picasso?

The two most famous quotes from Pablo Picasso are:

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

When did Pablo Picasso live?

Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 and died in the year 1973.