Pablo Picasso
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.Collection: Art
So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.Collection: Freedom
I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.Collection: Past
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.Collection: Eggs
You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.Collection: Moon
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.Collection: Art
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. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.Collection: Art
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 those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!Collection: Men
If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.Collection: Paint
When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.Collection: Doors
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.Collection: Hands
Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.Collection: Age
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.Collection: Inspirational
Action is the fundamental key to success.Collection: Keys
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.Collection: Ideas
A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.Collection: Change
I am exhausted if I don't work.Collection: Work
When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after youCollection: Worry
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.Collection: Beauty
Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.Collection: Art
A painting only lives in the eye of the beholderCollection: Eye
All art is subversive.Collection: Art
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.Collection: Magic
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.Collection: Would Be
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.Collection: Four Elements
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.Collection: Art
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.Collection: Men
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.Collection: Photography
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.Collection: Greatness
Painting is a jeu d'esprit.Collection: Painting
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?Collection: Children
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.Collection: Way
To model an object is to possess it.Collection: Copying
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.Collection: Games
Action is the foundation of all success.Collection: Foundation
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.Collection: Art
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.Collection: Photography
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).Collection: Enemy
I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.Collection: Beautiful
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.Collection: Political
The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.Collection: Art
He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.Collection: Dog
It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.Collection: Art
Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.Collection: Years
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.Collection: Preparation
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.Collection: Done
Computers are stupid.Collection: Stupid
Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.Collection: Important
I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.Collection: Beautiful