We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
