Pablo Picasso citations

“Quand je n'ai pas de bleu, je mets du rouge.”

“Comme l'a dit un jour Picasso, au grand scandale des gens qui l'entouraient — Je ne cherche pas, je trouve.”

“L'art lave notre âme de la poussière du quotidien.”

“L'art n'est pas chaste […], on devrait l’interdire aux ignorants innocents, ne jamais mettre en contact avec lui ceux qui y sont insuffisamment préparés. Oui, l'art est dangereux. Ou s'il est chaste, ce n'est pas de l'art.”

“On met très longtemps à devenir jeune.”

“Les gloires, les trompettes, les palmes… et les bas-reliefs,… tout cela fait un monument.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

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

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

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

“People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”

“You don't make art, you find it”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

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

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

“When I was a child 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.”

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

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!”

“For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”

“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”

“Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.”

“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”

“I do not evolve, I AM.”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“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 a sun.”

“It takes a very long time to become young.”