The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should. — 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
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it… — 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
