Pablo Picasso
32 quotations
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
It takes a long time to become young.
Drink to me.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
Everything you can imagine is real.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.