Pablo Picasso Famous Quotes
"Give me a museum, and I'll fill it."
"The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
"Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man."
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
"Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man."
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso Quotations
"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
"Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions."
Ben Stein
"Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem against them I feel quite confident."
James P Hogan
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
Michel de Montaigne
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A Newhouse
There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.
Edwin Markham
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Coombs Barnes