Pablo Picasso Quotes

It takes a long time to become young.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Everything you can imagine is real.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

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

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.

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