I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. — 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
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
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s… — 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
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). — 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
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply… — 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
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
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
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves… — 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
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
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
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. — 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
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.” — 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
Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There are painters that can change the sun into a yellow blot, but there are others, that due to their talent and… — 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
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art… — 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
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on… — 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
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