Pablo Picasso Quotes

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

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

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.