Pablo Picasso Quotes

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.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

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

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

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

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

I do not seek. I find.

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

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

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

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

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

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

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