Quotes from Pablo Picasso
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
— Pablo Picasso
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
— Pablo Picasso
They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
— Pablo Picasso
When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.
— Pablo Picasso
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
— Pablo Picasso
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
— Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
— Pablo Picasso
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ? Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
— Pablo Picasso
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
— Pablo Picasso
We don't grow older we grow riper.
— Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
— Pablo Picasso