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Pablo Picasso — Portrait after a picture by Condor Films (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

The quotations of

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor

1881–1973

21 quotes, most often on Art, Youth and Work.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Art
- Children
Art is the lie that tells the truth.
- Art
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Art
- Children
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.
In: Sergei Eisenstein (1957), Film form [and]: The film sense, p. 127.
- Art
Everything you can imagine is real.
- Art
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
- Art
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.
- Art
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Art
Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.
- Art
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Picasso quoted in ‘TIME’; quoted in: The Atlantic, Vol. 214 (1964), p. 97.
- Art
- God
A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man that sells what he paints.
- Art
I don’t work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art.
- Art
- Nature

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