Pablo Picasso Quotes

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

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

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

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

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.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.