Pablo Picasso Quotes

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

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.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

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

When you're really young, you're young for life.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

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.

To model an object is to possess it.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

You can't run a without taking risks.

You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.

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

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.

I want to know one thing, what is color?

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

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 perfect circle.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

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 in keeping them in our midst.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

Everything we can dream can be real.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

I do not evolve, I am.