Quotes from Pablo Picasso

The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

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

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

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

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

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

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

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

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

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

If I don't have red, I use blue.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.