25 Quotes by Pablo Picasso on Creativity

Everything you can imagine is real.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

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

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

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

It takes a very long time to become young.

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

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

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

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

I do not seek. I find.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.