If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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
He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost.… — 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
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
Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting. — 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
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last… — 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
I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three. — 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
