“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
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Famous Pablo Picasso Quotes
“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.”
“I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.”
Source: Picasso
“I don't say everything, but I paint everything.”
Source: Picasso érotique
Source: The Picasso Book
Source: Picasso's Picassos
“What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.”
“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
“When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.”
“When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.”
“Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.”
“In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.”
“Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?”
“It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.”
Source: Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier
Source: Picasso and his art
“One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.”
“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.”
Source: Picasso and photography: the dark mirror
“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”
“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”