Pablo Picasso Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”

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

“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.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”

“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”

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

“Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.”

“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”

“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!”