If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. — 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
Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably… — 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
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
I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you… — 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
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to… — 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
