We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth. — 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
Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat… — 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 the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter… — 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
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back… — 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
“What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter?… — 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
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you… — 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
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — 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
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
