If ever one has to make a list of artists whose art transformed the 20th century, Pablo Picasso would feature right at the top. That probably is enough to explain the sheer genius and virtuosity that Picasso administered. Born in southern Spain, he was a prodigious child who went to become one of the most renowned artists of the world, known for his ground-breaking and pioneering style. Despite his young age, his talent was widely apparent and couldn’t be foregone. He had the ability to take up any art form. His influence was such that he became one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and the co-creator of Cubism or the Cubist movement. He is also responsible for the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. In his life, Picasso held various profiles, as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. Although Picasso is best remembered as a Spanish expatriate of art, none can deny his influence in literature as well. Picasso’s quotes on daily life, living, happiness, faith, religion, love, journey, time, travel and so on sum up a refreshing take on life that he had. Explore this section and get acquainted with some of the best known quotes by Pablo Picasso.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Pablo Picasso
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
Pablo Picasso
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.
Pablo Picasso
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso
Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.
Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.
It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.
Pablo Picasso
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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.
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