“It takes a long time to become young.”
Source: Picasso
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Famous Pablo Picasso Quotes
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
Source: Picasso: style and meaning
“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
“The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
Source: Picasso
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”
Source: Picasso's Vollard Suite
Source: Picasso and Man
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Source: The Body on the cross
“Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views