Pablo Picasso Quotes

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

To find is the thing. - Pablo Picasso

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.

I do not believe I have used radically different elements in the different manners I have used in my paintings. If the subjects I have wanted to express have suggested different ways of expression, I have never hesitated to adopt them. I have never made trials nor experiments. Whenever I had something to say I have said it in the manner in which I have felt it ought to be said. Different motives inevitably require different methods of expression. (Paris 1923)

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.

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

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

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

I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.

Οι υπολογιστές είναι άχρηστοι, μόνο απαντήσεις μπορούν να δώσουν.

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

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.

You have to wake people up! To revolutionize their way of identifying things...you've got to create images they won't accept.