Pablo Picasso on Truth Quotes

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

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

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"To search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"It takes a long time to become young."

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

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

"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."

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

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."

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

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