Pablo Picasso Quotes About Art, Life and Greatness

Pablo Picasso is a legendary artist who brought beauty and life to almost anything he touched.

He is by far one of the most influential and greatest artists of the 20th century, and even today Picasso continues to inspire others with his wise words and outlook on life.

Get artistically inspired with these wonderful Pablo Picasso quotes, and go out and paint your dreams!

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Pablo Picasso Quotes About Art, Life and Greatness

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1. “Youth has no age.” – Pablo Picasso

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2. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso

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3. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso

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4. “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

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5. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

6. “It takes a long time to become young.” – Pablo Picasso

7. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

8. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso

9. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” – Pablo Picasso

10. “Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso Quotes About Life and Greatness

11. “Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso

12. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Pablo Picasso

13. Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. – Pablo Picasso

14. Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. – Pablo Picasso

15. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone – Pablo Picasso

16. 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 sun – Pablo Picasso

17. The artist is a receptacle for 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. – Pablo Picasso

18. Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. – Pablo Picasso

19. It takes a very long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso

20. My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso – Pablo Picasso

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21. I do not seek. I find. – Pablo Picasso

22. An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. – Pablo Picasso

23. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs. – Pablo Picasso

24. Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. – Pablo Picasso

25. Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar. – Pablo Picasso

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