Pablo Picasso

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one’s thoughts change.

Pablo Picasso

A picture lives by its legend – not by anything else.

Pablo Picasso

Abstract art is only painting. And what’s so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

Pablo Picasso

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

Pablo Picasso

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

Pablo Picasso

All art is subversive.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Pablo Picasso

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That’s the only way he will do original work.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso