Quotes from Pablo Picasso

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.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Beauty?...To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

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

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.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Computers are stupid.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Youth has no age.

It takes a long time to become young.

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

For me there are only two type of women: goddesses and doormats.