Pablo Picasso Quotes

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Pablo Picasso

Profession : Painter

Birth : October 25, 1881

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Pablo Picasso

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Pablo Picasso

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

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

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Pablo Picasso

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

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

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

Pablo Picasso

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Pablo Picasso

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Pablo Picasso