Pablo Picasso

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”

“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. ”

“People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...”

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”

“Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.”

“Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.”

“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”

“There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.”

“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.(about Guernica).”

“Cansei de ser moderno. quero ser eterno".”

“I'm not a developer; I am.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”

“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.”

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

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

“Youth has no age. ”

“Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.”

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.”

“If I don't have red, I use blue.”

“Siempre estoy haciendo cosas que no puedo hacer, así es como logro hacerlas.”

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”

“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”

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

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

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

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

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

“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!”

“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.”

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

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

“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

“I do not seek. I find.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

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

“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”

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

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