Pablo Picasso Quotes

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

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

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

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

All art is erotic.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

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.

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

How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously?

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

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

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

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

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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.