Maaike Kooijman Psyche 4 apr 2019, 06:00

Leestijd: 2 minuten

De 20 mooiste quotes van Pablo Picasso

In de Bedrock-serie ‘De mooiste quotes van…’ delen we regelmatig inspirerende citaten van wijze mensen, van invloedrijke filosofen tot feministen en auteurs. Of kunstenaars! Picasso is één van de bekendste Spaanse kunstschilders en zijn ‘uitvinding’ van het kubisme heeft een enorme invloed gehad op de ontwikkeling van de schilderkunst. Maar zijn ideeën over kunst zelf zijn veel breder te trekken dan alleen zijn schilderijen – jup, hier wordt levenswijsheid gesproken.

Dit zijn 20 mooie quotes van de Spaanse kunstenaar!

De mooiste quotes van Pablo Picasso

1. “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
2. “Youth has no age.”
3. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
4. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
5. “There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.”
6. “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
7. “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
8. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
9. “You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
10. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
11. “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
12. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
13. “What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
14. “We don’t grow older, we grow riper.”
15. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
16. “I don’t seek, I find.”
17. “One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite – that particular peach is but a detail.”
18. “Everyhing you can imagine is real.”
19. “The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
20. “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”

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• De 20 mooiste quotes van Albert Einstein
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