Pablo Picasso Quotes

Spain, Painter
October 25, 1881 – April, 8, 1973.

Pablo Picasso (; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces.

Also known as Sculptor, Graphic Designer, Poet, Ceramist, Playwright

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart.

Pablo Picasso
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Pablo Picasso
- Death

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

Pablo Picasso
- Path
- Lifetime
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Pablo Picasso
- Intention
- Counts
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.

Pablo Picasso
- Use
- Elements
- Available
We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

Pablo Picasso
- Art
- Truth
- Way
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Pablo Picasso
- Ideas
- Interests
- Spite
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

Pablo Picasso

Don't waste your youth growing up.

Pablo Picasso
- Growing Up
- Waste
Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso
- War
- Enemy
- Art Is
If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

Pablo Picasso
- Paint
I paint what I think, not what I see.

Pablo Picasso
- Thinking
- Painting
When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

Pablo Picasso
I do not evolve, I am.

Pablo Picasso
- Evolve

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Pablo Picasso
- Art
- Truth
- Convince
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

Pablo Picasso
- Working
- Conscious
- Canvas
You don't make art, you find it.

Pablo Picasso
- Art
- Find
What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.

Pablo Picasso
- Unknown
If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

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- Fake
- I Like
Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

Pablo Picasso

My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.

Pablo Picasso
- Friends
Action is the fundamental key to success.

Pablo Picasso
- Success
- Action
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

Pablo Picasso
- Canvas
- Apparitions
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pablo Picasso
- Harmony
- Obvious