Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 2

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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

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

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

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

Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.

Youth has no age.

You don't make art, you find it

It takes a long time to become young.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.

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.

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

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.

It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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.