Pablo Picasso Quotes About Art, Life and Greatness

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

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

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

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work cannot always live in the present, it must not be considered art at all.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.