For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is… — 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
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
