Pablo Picasso Quotes About Art, Life and Greatness

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

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.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

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.

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.

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

The artist is a receptacle for the 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.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of the past he carries with him.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

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.

It takes a long time to become young.

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.

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