Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 6

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it

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

All things considered, there is only Matisse.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

If you can imagine it...it is real

In art, practice always comes before theory.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

People who read are people who dream.

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

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

There are more copies than originals among people.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.