While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. — 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
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. — 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
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
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
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one… — 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
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
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
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
When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one… — 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
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
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
We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.… — 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
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
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. — 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
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
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
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I… — 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
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
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
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
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
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