Pablo Picasso Quotes

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes roban.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

I do not believe I have used radically different elements in the different manners I have used in my paintings. If the subjects I have wanted to express have suggested different ways of expression, I have never hesitated to adopt them. I have never made trials nor experiments. Whenever I had something to say I have said it in the manner in which I have felt it ought to be said. Different motives inevitably require different methods of expression. (Paris 1923)

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.

Art is theft.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.