583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

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.

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.