Art was the only woman Picasso loved.

“[Picasso] loved...women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence…

— Marina Picasso

“Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

— Arshile Gorky

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and…

— August Wilson

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

— David Hockney

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem…

— Deborah Solomon

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in…

— Raf Simons

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

— Brad Holland

People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but…

— Paloma Picasso

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso”

— Edward B. Burger

“It's like art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he can paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes…

— Neal Shusterman

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite…

— Gregory Bateson

“Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and…

— Winifred Gallagher