I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in… — 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
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. — 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 is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that… — 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
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