Quotes from Pablo Picasso
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
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
- Pablo Picasso
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
- Pablo Picasso
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
- Pablo Picasso
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.
- Pablo Picasso
The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
- Pablo Picasso
God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
- Pablo Picasso
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
- Pablo Picasso
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
- Pablo Picasso
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
- Pablo Picasso
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
- Pablo Picasso