Pablo Picasso Quotes

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

People who read are people who dream.

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.

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c'est trop tard

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.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.

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

Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.

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

Les lettres françaises (1943-03-24).

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

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

Yo no busco, yo encuentro.