Pablo Picasso Quotes

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it becomes something else.

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

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.

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.

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