Pablo Picasso on Burnout Quotes

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

"One must act in painting as in life, directly."

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

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

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

"Without great solitude no serious work is possible."

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

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

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

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

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."

"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."

"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."

"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."

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

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

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

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

"It takes a long time to become young."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"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."

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

"I do not seek, I find."

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

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