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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright. He is considered to be one of the most famous painters in the twentieth century and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 20, 1881, and spent most of his adult life in France. He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Picasso's work includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets, and costumes that convey myriad intellectual, political, social, and amorous messages.

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"Action is the foundational key to all success."

— Pablo Picasso

"Everything you can imagine is real."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— 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."

— Pablo 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

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

— Pablo Picasso

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."

— Pablo Picasso

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"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."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

— Pablo Picasso

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"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."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"I do not seek. I find."

— Pablo Picasso

"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing"

— Pablo Picasso

"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."

— Pablo Picasso

"Youth has no age."

— Pablo Picasso

"Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal"

— Pablo Picasso

"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."

— Pablo Picasso

"If I don't have red, I use blue."

— Pablo Picasso

"People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age..."

— Pablo Picasso

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

— Pablo Picasso

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

— Pablo Picasso

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

— Pablo Picasso

"What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing."

— Pablo Picasso

"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso"

— Pablo Picasso

"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."

— Pablo Picasso

"All art is erotic."

— Pablo Picasso

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."

— Pablo Picasso

"Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them."

— Pablo Picasso

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life"

— Pablo Picasso

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."

— Pablo Picasso

"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."

— Pablo Picasso

"What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."

— Pablo Picasso

"Without great solitude, no serious work is possible."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"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

"You don't make art, you find it"

— Pablo Picasso

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath."

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

"We don't grow older we grow riper."

— Pablo Picasso

"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree."

— 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."

— Pablo Picasso

"There is only one way to see things"

— Pablo Picasso

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