Quotes by Pablo Picasso

The following are quotes from Pablo Picasso:

Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

The artist is a recepticle for the 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.

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 the sun.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

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