Pablo Picasso
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 not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.Collection: Shoes
Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.Collection: Real
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 at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.Collection: Past
I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.Collection: People
I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.Collection: Color
Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.Collection: Race
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.Collection: Art
Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses.Collection: Men
Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.Collection: Clay
I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.Collection: Inspirational
Don't waste your youth growing up.Collection: Growing Up
Everything we can dream can be real.Collection: Dream
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.Collection: Mean
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.Collection: Art
Art is a leap into the dark.Collection: Art
To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.Collection: Drawing
Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.Collection: Art
There's nothing more difficult than a line.Collection: Life
The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.Collection: Art
Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.Collection: Happiness
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.Collection: Canvas
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.Collection: Feelings
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.Collection: Art
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.Collection: Art
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspectsCollection: Solitude
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.Collection: Art
There are more copies than originals among people.Collection: People
When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.Collection: Relaxation
A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at itCollection: Mind
If you don't know what color to take, take black.Collection: Color
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.Collection: 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.Collection: Men
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.Collection: Doors
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?Collection: Photography
When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.Collection: Work
An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.Collection: Artist
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.Collection: Artist
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.Collection: Drawing
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?Collection: Done
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.Collection: Art
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.Collection: Curves
The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.Collection: Lying
I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.Collection: Composition
In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.Collection: Life
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 of the truth.Collection: Deception
I have had no true friends, only lovers.Collection: Love
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.Collection: Art
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.Collection: Doctors
It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.Collection: Dream