I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

—Pablo Picasso

About Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention...

More quotations from Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.

—Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find.

—Pablo Picasso

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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

—Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

—Pablo Picasso

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

—Pablo Picasso

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More quotations tagged with “reality”

Reality is something you rise above.

Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

—Jules de Gaultier

Realism… has no more to do with reality than anything else.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

—Henry Kissinger

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

—Garrison Keillor

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