Pablo Picasso Quotes: 22

• Everything you can imagine is real.

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

• Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

• Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

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

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

• We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

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

  Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

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

• 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.

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

• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

• It takes a very long time to become young.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.