Pablo Picasso

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." — Pablo Picasso

Cuando me dicen que soy demasiado viejo para hacer una cosa, procuro hacerla enseguida

La calidad de un pintor depende de la cantidad de pasado que lleve consigo

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

We’re constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

If they took away all my paints, I'd use pastels, if they took away my pastels, I'd use crayons, if they took away my crayons, I'd use a pencil. If they put me in a cell, and stripped me of everything, I'd spit on my finger and draw on the wall.

Many think that Cubism is an art of transition, an experiment which is to bring ulterior results. Those who think that way have not understood it. Cubism is not either a seed or a foetus, but an art dealing primarily with forms, and when a form is realized it is there to live its own life. A mineral substance, having geometric formation, is not made so for transitory purposes, it is to remain what it is and will always have its own form.

On met très longtemps à devenir jeune.

Sin una gran soledad ningún trabajo serio es posible

For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.

"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."