Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There are painters that can change the sun into a yellow blot, but there are others, that due to their talent and… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
