Pablo Picasso Quotes

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.

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.

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.