He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso

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

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso

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

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso

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

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Pablo Picasso

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso