Quotes by Pablo Picasso

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

It takes a long time to become young.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Everything you can imagine is real.

[Upon being asked what his art meant] Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway.

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.

I would like to live like a poor man with lots of money.