Pablo Picasso

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

When I don't have red, I use blue.

Οι υπολογιστές είναι άχρηστοι, μόνο απαντήσεις μπορούν να δώσουν.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Jedes Kind ist ein Künstler. Das Problem ist, ein Künstler zu bleiben, wenn du erwachsen bist.

Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.

If you know exactly what you are going to do,why do it?.

I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.

There is only one way to see things,
until someone shows us how to look at them
with different eyes

[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Mathematics, trigonometry, chemistry, psychoanalysis, music, and what not have been related to cubism to give it an easier interpretation. All this has been pure literature, not to say nonsense, which brought bad results, blinding people with theories. Cubism has kept itself within the limits and limitations of painting, never pretending to go beyond it.

My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.