More - Pablo Picasso Quotes

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Pablo Picasso

 Editor's Pick inspirational Quote of the Day Spanish Artist

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Pablo Picasso

 Children

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Pablo Picasso

 Accidents

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

 Drawing

I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child

Pablo Picasso

 

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

Pablo Picasso

 Art

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

Pablo Picasso

 People

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Pablo Picasso

 Spanish Artist

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

 Art Spanish Artist

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

Pablo Picasso

 Art Spanish Artist