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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Ruiz Picasso

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Pablo Ruiz Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973), often referred to simply as Picasso, was a Spanish painter and sculptor. His full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism.

Other Pablo Ruiz Picasso Quotes

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

It takes a long time to become young.

The artist is a receptacle 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.

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I do not search; I find.

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who 'appreciate' beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There’s no such thing. I never 'appreciate,' any more than I 'like.' I love it or I hate.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

-Picasso’s Wife: If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

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

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

It is my misfortune — and probably my delight — to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! ... I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things — so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is 'touched by God.'

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

It takes one a long time to become young.

Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

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

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

Drink to me.

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

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

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

When you come right down to it, all you have is your self. Your self is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing.

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.

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

–Picasso’s Wife: In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

There are only two types of women — goddesses and doormats.

The world today doesn't make sense,so why should I paint pictures that do?

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the ant. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

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