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Pablo Picasso quotes

1881–1973 · Spanish painter and sculptor

Picasso co-invented Cubism and kept changing styles for seventy years. Most "Picasso quotes" were reported by friends and interviewers.

1 real · 1 not theirs

1 quotes traced to Pablo Picasso's own work or a reliable witness.

Attributed

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Source: Reported in interviews; no single original source

1 famous lines credited to Pablo Picasso that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.

No source found

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

The trail: Similar lines were written by T. S. Eliot (1920) and others; no reliable source ties this wording to Picasso.