Pablo Picasso Quotes

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.

You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.

La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defence against the enemy.

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

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

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

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Siempre estoy haciendo cosas que no puedo hacer, así es como logro hacerlas.

It is a miracle that one does not dissolve into one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

It's like God's. 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.