If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.” — 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
The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one… — 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
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
“A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody” — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. — 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
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules. — 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
