The path to youth takes a lifetime. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer. Pablo Picasso moon sea giving For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline. Pablo Picasso discipline form long When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately. Pablo Picasso trying "Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance. Pablo Picasso italian names bears The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever. Pablo Picasso amused fingerprints bones I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! Pablo Picasso pain beautiful beauty I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. Pablo Picasso works-of-art products art The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. Pablo Picasso housekeepers earth To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was. Pablo Picasso greek past art When you're really young, you're young for life. Pablo Picasso mastery young To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. Pablo Picasso drawing pages ideas If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it? Pablo Picasso done ifs knows In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall. Pablo Picasso wall hope life If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three. Pablo Picasso four-elements three use Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things? Pablo Picasso anecdotes liberty photography Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman. Pablo Picasso passion motivation world Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. Pablo Picasso modesty painting art Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand. Pablo Picasso given lying art Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. Pablo Picasso want people art Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more. Pablo Picasso drink i-can knows