Quotes from Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

I am always doing things I can't do. That is how I get to do them.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not

A piece of space-dust falls on your head once every day… With every breath, we inhale a bit of the story of our universe, our planet's past and future, the smells and stories of the world around us, even the seeds of life.

Cansei de ser moderno. quero ser eterno.

I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.

Imagination is real.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

Art is theft.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.

My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

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

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I do not evolve, I AM.

Kažete da ste neshva?eni mladi prijatelju. Strpite se. I dijamant je u osnovu ugljenik, ali je umeo da ?eka.

People who read are people who dream.

What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

Learn the rule like a pro so you can break them like an artist.