Pablo Picasso Quotes

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

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

Nothing is worse than a brilliant beginning.

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.

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

Learn the rule like a pro so you can break them like an artist.

Original: C’est en passant que Casagemas était mort que je me suis mis à piendre en bleu

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

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

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

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

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

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.

When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.