He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art. Pablo Picasso creating people art We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth. Pablo Picasso art-is way art Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. Pablo Picasso goya clown greatness Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso copies dangerous success In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. Pablo Picasso deeds doe art In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. Pablo Picasso sketching drawing firsts Give me a museum and I'll fill it. Pablo Picasso powerful humorous witty There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too. Pablo Picasso poodle-dogs poodles dog If you can imagine it...it is real Pablo Picasso imagine real ifs Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. Pablo Picasso miracle doe art Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding. Pablo Picasso bidding stronger art It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good. Pablo Picasso emotion artist ideas If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was. Pablo Picasso mastery islamic age Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters. Pablo Picasso frustrated doctors two Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God." Pablo Picasso sacred able power Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. Pablo Picasso stealing creative art Everything we can dream can be real. Pablo Picasso being-real real dream If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean. Pablo Picasso mean people thinking In art, practice always comes before theory. Pablo Picasso theory practice art I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them. Pablo Picasso know-how knows order