Pablo Picasso on Burnout Quotes

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

"If I don't have red, I use blue."

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

"What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing."

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

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

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

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."

"It takes a long time to become young."

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

"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."

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

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."

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

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth."

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."

"Without great solitude no serious work is possible."

"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird?"

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul."

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."

"Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?"

"Why do you try to understand? Does a bird try to understand its song?"

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"I do not seek, I find."

"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."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"The older you get, the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."