Pablo Picasso Quotes

• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

  Pablo Picasso

  Tags in Painting, Correctly

• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painting, Successive, Correctly, Portraits, Egg, Starting

• When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shipwreck

• 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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Childhood

• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Particular, Faces

• 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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Class, Discriminate, Things

• We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Older

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Hate

• 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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Finish

• To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Eyes, Drawing, Sing

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plagiarism, Imitation, Copy

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Painting, Goldfinch, Eyes, Drawing, Sing

• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Abstraction, Abstract, Realism

• There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Painting, World, Artist

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art, Life, Soul

  Tags in Dust, Purpose

• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Tags in Techniques

• The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art

• The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art, Enemy

  Tags in Creativity, Chief

Pablo Picasso (89)

Birth:	25th October, 1881
Death:	8th April, 1973
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Artist, Painter, Sculptor

About

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and Guernica, a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

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