All Pablo Picasso Quotes
- The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.… Admire
- I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another. Along
- The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor… Cubism
- Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger… Admit
- A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. Any
- Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow… Academic
- Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good. Difficulty
- You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should… Copies
- The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of… Been
- People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has… Blood
- I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should. Believed
- And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. Celebrated
- The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the… Altered
- From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. Abstract
- To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be… All
- There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others. Bad
- Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. Clown
- What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a… Always Existed
- Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a… Circle
- Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should… All
- Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting. All
- The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. Brought
- I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would… Any
- If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. Education
- When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. Egg