He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
— Pablo Picasso
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Everything you can imagine is real.
It takes a long time to become young.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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 end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
I do not seek. I find.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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.
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.
