Pablo Picasso on Truth Quotes

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

"The truth is that I am always working, and I am always looking for something."

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

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

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."

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

"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."

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

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand."

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

"If you don't know what color to use, use black."

"It takes a long time to become young."

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

"Truth is what is, not what we would like it to be."

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

"Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not."

"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."

"A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change."

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

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

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

"Reality is more than the thing itself. I look for what is always there."

"Everything is a lie, but a lie that says something about the truth."

"The quality of an artist depends on the amount of past he carries with him."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."

"I do not seek, I find."

"In art, intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by facts and not by reasons."