Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or… — 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
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
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
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
Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years,… — 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
