Pablo Picasso Quotes

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

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

For a long time I limited myself to one colour — as a form of discipline.

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

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

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

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

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.

To find is the thing. - Pablo Picasso

It is a miracle that one does not dissolve into one's bath like a lump of sugar.

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

Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.