Pablo Picasso Quotes
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as 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 sun.
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
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.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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.
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.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.