Inspiring Quotes by Pablo Picasso - Page 2

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal"

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

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero"

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is lie that makes us realise truth"

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

"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer"

"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"

"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea"

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary"

"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"

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth"

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

"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought"

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

"Action is the foundational key to all success"

"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"

"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it"