Pablo Picasso Quotes

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.

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

I do not search; I find.

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.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

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

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

Yo no busco, yo encuentro.

If you know exactly what you are going to do,why do it?.

La calidad de un pintor depende de la cantidad de pasado que lleve consigo

I do not seek. I find.

L'art lave notre âme de la poussière du quotidien.

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.” — Pablo Picasso

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. [Boisgeloup, winter 1934].

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.