That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone… — 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
Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see… — 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
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given… if it does exist, it exists to be… — 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
When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one… — 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
