Quotes from Pablo Picasso

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

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

I am exhausted if I don't work.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

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.

Youth has no age.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

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

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

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

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ? Pablo Picasso

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.