Quotes by Pablo Picasso

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. <br />

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Pablo Picasso

When I was a child, my mother said to me,<br /> 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general.<br /> If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'<br /> Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.