Pablo Picasso

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.

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.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it becomes something else.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

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

Almost every evening [in their common early-Cubist years, in Paris], either I went to 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 paintings. A canvas wasn't less both of us fear p. 311

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Youth has no age.

I was a painter and became Picasso.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.