Pablo Picasso

To find is the thing.

— Pablo Picasso

I do not evolve, I am.

— Pablo Picasso

Computers are stupid.

— Pablo Picasso

Drink to me.

— Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find.

— Pablo Picasso

It took me a lifetime.

— Pablo Picasso

I don't develop; I am.

— Pablo Picasso

Youth has no age.

— Pablo Picasso

Why assume that to look is to see?

— Pablo Picasso

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.

— Pablo Picasso

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

— Pablo Picasso

I have had no true friends, only lovers.

— Pablo Picasso

I'm not a developer; I am.

— Pablo Picasso

Basically the French are all peasants.

— Pablo Picasso

People who read are people who dream.

— Pablo Picasso

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

— Pablo Picasso

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?

— Pablo Picasso

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

— Pablo Picasso

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

— Pablo Picasso

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

— Pablo Picasso

For a long time I limited myself to one colour—as a form of discipline.

— Pablo Picasso

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

— Pablo Picasso

If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.

— Pablo Picasso

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked…

— Pablo Picasso

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of…

— Pablo Picasso

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

— Pablo Picasso

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

— 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

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

I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything…

— Pablo Picasso

I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric,…

— Pablo Picasso

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always…

— 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

Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus…

— Pablo Picasso

But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand…

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso