“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?” — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness! — 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… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Paint a rainbow inside of you, paint a rainbow, let your smile shine through. When it's cold and gray, push the clouds… — 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
I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of… — 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
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
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
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
Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to… — 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
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea… — 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
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
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
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
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
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
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
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
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share
