Pablo Picasso Quotes About Art, Life and Greatness

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

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

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

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.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.