Quotes from Pablo Picasso

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

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

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Action is the fundamental key to success.

Action is the foundation of all success.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.