Quotes from Pablo Picasso

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

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? -Pablo Picasso.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France)

On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c'est trop tard

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought

To find is the thing.

Art is a lie that reveals the truth.

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

My hand tells me what I'm thinking.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

Siempre estoy haciendo cosas que no puedo hacer, así es como logro hacerlas.

It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.

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.

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.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.