Photography Quotes by Pablo Picasso

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

— Pablo Picasso

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

— Pablo Picasso

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

— Pablo Picasso

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

— Pablo Picasso

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

— Pablo Picasso

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

— Pablo Picasso

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

— Pablo Picasso

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

— Pablo Picasso

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

— Pablo Picasso

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they…

— Pablo Picasso

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That…

— Pablo Picasso

I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with…

— Pablo Picasso

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

— Pablo Picasso

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of…

— Pablo Picasso

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'.…

— Pablo Picasso

It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate…

— Pablo Picasso

“It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover…

— Pablo Picasso

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of…

— Pablo Picasso

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from…

— Pablo Picasso

It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one…

— Pablo Picasso

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it…

— Pablo Picasso

When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting.…

— Pablo Picasso

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor…

— Pablo Picasso

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

— Pablo Picasso

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

— Pablo Picasso