Quotes from Pablo Picasso


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


We don't grow older, we grow riper.


Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.


Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.


The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.


Give me a museum and I'll fill it.


To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.


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


Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?


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


Good artists copy, great artists steal.


Action is the foundational key to all success.


Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.


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


Youth has no age.


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.


Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.


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


It takes a long time to become young.


The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.