Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Quote by Pablo Picasso

Topics: Success Quotes

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

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

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

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your...

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your...

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to...

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to...

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place:...

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place:...

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand...

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand...

I do not seek. I find.

I do not seek. I find.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may Learn...

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may Learn...

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we...

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we...

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to...

Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to...

Vermont's a place where barns come painted, Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout...

Vermont's a place where barns come painted, Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout...

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not...

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not...

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And...

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And...

The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old...

The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old...