Quotes from Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

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.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

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

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.