Quotes from Pablo Picasso

Blandt mennesker er der langt flere kopier end originaler.

Impara le regole come un professionista, in modo da poterle rompere come un artista.

L'art lave notre âme de la poussière du quotidien.

I do not search; I find.

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

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

El artista es un receptáculo de emociones que vienen de cualquier sitio: del cielo, de la tierra, de un pedazo de papel, de una sombra pasajera o de una telaraña.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

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

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.