The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said… — 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
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there… — 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
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter?… — 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
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
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears… — 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
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.” — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor… — 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
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
