30 Best Pablo Picasso Quotes to Reflect

     Pablo Picasso Quotes on Life, Love and Art for Status: Amazing and brilliant Quotes for Reflecting.  Messages, Quotes and Motivational Phrases!

Who was Pablo Picasso?

     Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramist, set designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his life in France. He is known as the co-founder of Cubism, alongside Georges Braque, the inventor of constructed sculpture, the inventor of collage, and for the variety of styles he can develop and explore. Among his most famous works are Cubist paintings Like Girls D'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), a painting of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

     Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are considered the three artists who most accomplished revolutionary developments in the visual arts in the early decades of the 20th century, responsible for important advances in painting, sculpture, engraving and ceramics.

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Picasso Quotes about Life:

• "Finishing a job? How absurd, finishing means killing him, freeing him from his soul... giving him the coup de grace for the painter and for the painting."
  

• "Manifestation takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You must know that what you want to manifest will happen."

• "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but the application of what instinct and brain can conceive beyond any canon."

• "To flourish, a work of art must ignore or forget all rules."

• "Art is a finger in the ass of the bourgeoisie."

• "What's really a face? Your own photo? Your makeup? Or is it a face painted by a painter? Doesn't everyone look your way? Deformations just don't exist."

• "Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking limits and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities."

• "When German soldiers used to come to my studio and see my pictures of Guernica, they would ask, 'Did you do this?' And I would say, 'No, you did it.'"

• "We must not discriminate between things. As far as things are concerned, there are no class distinctions. We must choose what is good for us, where we can find it."

• "When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her limbs."

• "Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror or the painter?"

• "When I was a kid, I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid."

• "We constantly move dust from one place to another, only to be replaced by more dust: entropy always wins."

• "Music and art are like lights that guide the world."

• "Everything exists in limited quantity, especially happiness."

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Quotes by Pablo Picasso for Reflection:

• "Drawing is a kind of hypnotism."
  

• "An idea is a starting point and nothing more. As soon as you do it, thought or transform."

• "Never let a dichotomy rule your life, a dichotomy where you hate what you do to build your free time. Find a situation where your job gives you as much happiness as your free time."

• "Paradise is loving many things with passion."

• "I'm afraid of people who talk about beautiful things. What is beautiful? Something that escapes definition."

• "There's nothing harder than a line."

• "You get a complete painting for a peach and people think otherwise, that this particular peach is just a detail."

• "If I spit, they'll take my spit and frame it like a great work of art."

• "Our goals can only be achieved through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must believe fervently and in which we must act vigorously. There is no other path to success."

• "When it comes to that, all you have is your being. Your being is a sun with a thousand rays."

• "What is more abstract can be the height of reality."

• "Often, when reading a book, one feels that the author would rather paint than write; one can feel the pleasure of describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because in his heart of hearts he would rather use brushes and colors."

• "I don't believe in accidents. There are no encounters in history, there are no accidents."

• "Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions that are never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor, and within every photographer there is a painter who tries to get out."

• "Having fun with all these games, all this nonsense, all these image puzzles, I became famous... I'm just a public artist who understood his time."

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