Famous Quotes

Pablo Picasso

"Everything you can imagine is real."

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

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

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

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

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun"

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

"It takes a very long time to become young."

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

"If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!"

"There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."

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

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."

"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."

"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."

"When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid."