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
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
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
...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
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
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you… — 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
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
Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of… — 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
