Quotes from Pablo Picasso

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

I do not seek. I find.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

In fact, why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.