Quotes by Pablo Picasso

“There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes”

“Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?”

“A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.”

“If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.”

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

“Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.”

“Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.”

“What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.”

“I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.”

“Don't waste your youth growing up.”

“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”