If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922. — 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
It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means:… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. — 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
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
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. — 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