Pablo Picasso Quotes

Pablo Picasso Quotes.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso
Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.
Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso
Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?
Pablo Picasso
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Youth has no age.

Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
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
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Pablo Picasso
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso