Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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

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.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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, from a spider's web.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.