Pablo Picasso Quotes
20 quotes from Pablo Picasso — Spanish painter and sculptor who co-founded Cubism and became the most influential artist of the 20th century..
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
“I do not seek. I find.”
“It took me my whole life to learn to draw like a child.”
“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”
“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
“When we made Cubism we didn't mean to make Cubism but to express what was in us.”
“I act with paintings the way I act with things. I make a window the way I look through a window. If the open window isn't any good in my picture, I paint a curtain and close the window the way I would in a room.”
“A picture lives by its legend, not by anything else.”
“I don't have a clue. Ideas are simply starting points. I can rarely set them down as they come to my mind. As soon as I start to work, others well up in my pen. To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”
“I am anti-commercial, but I am interested in money because I know what I want to do with it.”
“That might be all very well but what I would prefer to hear was that I had a right to draw as I pleased even if it was the opposite of Raphael.”
“I asked him how he felt about Delacroix. His eyes narrowed and he said, 'That bastard. He's really good.'”
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
