Quotes by Pablo Picasso

"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."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

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

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

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

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."

"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."

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"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."

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

"There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats."

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

"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."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."