Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — 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
What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given… if it does exist, it exists to be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.” — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things… — 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
