--- title: "21 Way Quotes By Pablo Picasso" description: "21 Way quotes by Pablo Picasso. Plus more from Pablo Picasso and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/940/pablo-picasso-552_art_an-artist-must-forget-painting-when-he-p_2246375.jpg" --- > [An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/an-artist-must-forget-painting-when-he-paints-that-s-the-only-way-he/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/940/pablo-picasso-552_art_an-artist-must-forget-painting-when-he-p_2246375.jpg) > [Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/painting-is-just-another-way-of-keeping-a-diary/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2a/pablo-picasso-552_art_painting-is-just-another-way-of-keeping_2420083.jpg) > [Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/nature-does-many-things-the-way-i-do-but-she-hides-them/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/380/pablo-picasso-552_doe_nature-does-many-things-the-way-i-do-but_1812341.jpg) > [We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/we-now-know-that-art-is-not-the-truth-but-rather-a-way-of-approaching/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26a/pablo-picasso-552_art_we-now-know-that-art-is-not-the-truth-bu_1365399.jpg) > [I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/i-paint-the-way-some-people-write-an-autobiography-the-paintings/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e5/pablo-picasso-552_autobiography_i-paint-the-way-some-people-write-an-aut_1116689.jpg) > [When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/when-i-enter-the-studio-i-leave-my-body-at-the-door-the-way-the/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc3/pablo-picasso-552_body_when-i-enter-the-studio-i-leave-my-body_2137021.jpg) > [I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/i-paint-the-way-someone-bites-his-fingernails-for-me-painting-is-a/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61c/pablo-picasso-552_bad-habit_i-paint-the-way-someone-bites-his-finger_1376151.jpg) > [There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/there-is-only-one-way-to-see-things-until-someone-shows-us-how-to/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/767/pablo-picasso-552_different_there-is-only-one-way-to-see-things-unti_438239.jpg) > [When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/when-the-individuality-of-the-artist-begins-to-express-itself-what/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc7/pablo-picasso-552_art_when-the-individuality-of-the-artist-beg_1912953.jpg) > [I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/i-have-never-made-radically-different-experiments-whenever-i-wanted/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/pablo-picasso-552_different_i-have-never-made-radically-different-ex_601001.jpg) > [Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/drawing-is-a-kind-of-hypnotism-one-looks-in-such-a-way-at-the-model/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/pablo-picasso-552_drawing_drawing-is-a-kind-of-hypnotism-one-looks_2003289.jpg) > [You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/you-must-always-work-not-just-within-but-below-your-means-if-you-can/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c35/pablo-picasso-552_ease_you-must-always-work-not-just-within-but_2591654.jpg) > [Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/everybody-has-the-same-energy-potential-the-average-person-wastes-his/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/pablo-picasso-552_average_everybody-has-the-same-energy-potential_3083692.jpg) > [What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/what-i-have-to-do-is-utilize-as-best-i-can-the-ideas-which-objects/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/622/pablo-picasso-552_casts_what-i-have-to-do-is-utilize-as-best-i-c_1534647.jpg) > [“What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/what-is-a-face-really-it-s-own-photo-it-s-makeup-or-is-it-a-face-as/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/pablo-picasso-552_painter_what-is-a-face-really-it-s-own-photo-it_1503669.jpg) > [You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/you-mustn-t-expect-me-to-repeat-myself-my-past-doesn-t-interest-me-i/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46a/pablo-picasso-552_copies_you-mustn-t-expect-me-to-repeat-myself-m_3111902.jpg) > [I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/i-am-a-communist-and-my-painting-is-a-communist-painting-but-if-i/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7aa/pablo-picasso-552_communist_i-am-a-communist-and-my-painting-is-a-co_1239818.jpg) > [In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/in-one-way-or-another-i-always-marked-my-pictures-but-there-were/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e49/pablo-picasso-552_back-side_in-one-way-or-another-i-always-marked-my_301145.jpg) > [Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/different-themes-inevitably-require-different-methods-of-expression/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/pablo-picasso-552_different_different-themes-inevitably-require-diff_510518.jpg) > [We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/we-might-adapt-for-the-artist-the-joke-about-there-being-nothing-more/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71c/pablo-picasso-552_art_we-might-adapt-for-the-artist-the-joke-a_1021082.jpg) > [...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/why-did-plato-say-that-poets-should-be-chased-out-of-the-republic/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da3/pablo-picasso-552_antisocial_why-did-plato-say-that-poets-should-be-c_420897.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Pablo Picasso > [Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/art-isn-t-done-to-decorate-apartments-but-to-wage-war-against-the/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [When I haven't any blue I use red.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/when-i-haven-t-any-blue-i-use-red/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/the-parthenon-is-really-only-a-farmyard-over-which-someone-put-a-roof/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/by-amusing-myself-with-all-these-games-all-this-nonsense-all-these/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/if-i-paint-a-hammer-and-sickle-people-may-think-it-is-a/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/one-never-knows-what-one-is-going-to-do-one-starts-a-painting-and/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/now-there-is-fame-of-all-hunger-misery-the-incomprehension-by-the/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [It takes a long time to become young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/it-takes-a-long-time-to-become-young/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/we-all-know-that-art-is-not-truth-art-is-a-lie-that-makes-us-realize/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/you-see-these-thick-curtains-shut-out-the-daylight-artificial-light/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/the-best-calculation-is-the-absence-of-calculation-once-you-have/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [Action is the foundational key to all success. --Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/action-is-the-foundational-key-to-all-success-pablo-picasso/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/the-earth-doesn-t-have-a-housekeeper-to-do-the-dusting/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/god-is-really-only-another-artist-he-invented-the-giraffe-the/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) > [A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/a-baby-will-make-love-stronger-days-shorter-nights-longer-bankroll/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/pablo-picasso/#itemlist", "name": "21 Way Quotes By Pablo Picasso", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "An artist must forget painting when he paints. 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