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
I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an… — 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
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
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? — 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
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
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with… — 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
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. — 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
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds? — 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
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. — 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
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! — 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
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
