583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

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.

If I could say this I wouldn’t have to paint.

Don’t waste your youth growing up.

Everything exists in limited quantity – especially happiness.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it’s bidding.

Enough of Art. It’s Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can’t even imagine in advance.

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it.