Pablo Picasso Quotes

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

Where I play is not for me to decide.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.

I don't want anyone to tell me something.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes.

Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced.

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

Don't let other people decide who you are.

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.