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You can't run a without taking risks. By Pablo Picasso

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? By Pablo Picasso

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is. By Pablo Picasso

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

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes By Pablo Picasso

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it? By Pablo Picasso

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. By Pablo Picasso

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. By Pablo Picasso

I have had no true friends, only lovers. By Pablo Picasso

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

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. By Pablo Picasso

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else. By Pablo Picasso

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working. By Pablo Picasso

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. By Pablo Picasso

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one. By Pablo Picasso

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. By Pablo Picasso

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. By Pablo Picasso

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

My hand tells me what I'm thinking. By Pablo Picasso

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue. By Pablo Picasso

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. By Pablo Picasso

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. By Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. By Pablo Picasso

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

One must act in painting as in life, directly. By Pablo Picasso

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false. By Pablo Picasso

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. By Pablo Picasso

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm. By Pablo Picasso

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

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. By Pablo Picasso

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford. By Pablo Picasso

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. By Pablo Picasso

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall. By Pablo Picasso

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future. By Pablo Picasso

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

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words. By Pablo Picasso

If you don't know what color to take, take black ... By Pablo Picasso

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing. By Pablo Picasso

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it. By Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. By Pablo Picasso

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. By Pablo Picasso

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle. By Pablo Picasso

It's a poor artist who borrowsa good artist steals. By Pablo Picasso

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. By Pablo Picasso

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care. By Pablo Picasso

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. By Pablo Picasso

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities. By Pablo Picasso

If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three. By Pablo Picasso

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul. By Pablo Picasso

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. By Pablo Picasso

When I haven't any blue I use red. By Pablo Picasso

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons. By Pablo Picasso

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

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper. By Pablo Picasso

Rhythm is a perception of time ... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm. By Pablo Picasso

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. By Pablo Picasso

I draw like other people bite their nails. By Pablo Picasso

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. By Pablo Picasso

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time. By Pablo Picasso

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. By Pablo Picasso

I would like to live like a poor person with a lot of money. By Pablo Picasso

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away. By Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. By Pablo Picasso

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. By Pablo Picasso

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting. By Pablo Picasso

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.(about Guernica). By Pablo Picasso

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

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them. By Pablo Picasso

Good designers copy; great designers steal. By Pablo Picasso

To model an object is to possess it. By Pablo Picasso

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality. By Pablo Picasso

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. By Pablo Picasso

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you. By Pablo Picasso

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. By Pablo Picasso

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. By Pablo Picasso

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done By Pablo Picasso

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. By Pablo Picasso

We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France) By Pablo Picasso

To be young, really young, takes a very long time. By Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. By Pablo Picasso

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

You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it. By Pablo Picasso

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live? By Pablo Picasso

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them. By Pablo Picasso

In art, practice always comes before theory. By Pablo Picasso

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time. By Pablo Picasso

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. By Pablo Picasso

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. By Pablo Picasso

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography By Pablo Picasso

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. By Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone By Pablo Picasso

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it? By Pablo Picasso

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. By Pablo Picasso

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

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too. By Pablo Picasso

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty. By Pablo Picasso

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form ... one inevitably ends up with an egg. By Pablo Picasso

It takes a very long time to become young. By Pablo Picasso

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding. By Pablo Picasso

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only. By Pablo Picasso

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

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. By Pablo Picasso

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

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them! By Pablo Picasso

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice. By Pablo Picasso

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. By Pablo Picasso

I don't seek, I find. By Pablo Picasso

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else. By Pablo Picasso

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. By Pablo Picasso

All Children are Artists By Pablo Picasso

I'm not a developer; I am. By Pablo Picasso

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg. By Pablo Picasso

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

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought By Pablo Picasso

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all. By Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it. By Pablo Picasso

Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working. By Pablo Picasso

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. By Pablo Picasso

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is. By Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. By Pablo Picasso

In the end there is only Matisse. By Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to become young. By Pablo Picasso

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. By Pablo Picasso

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it. By Pablo Picasso

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

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them. By Pablo Picasso

For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing. By Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success. By Pablo Picasso

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

If there is something to steal, I steal it. By Pablo Picasso

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. By Pablo Picasso

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

There are more copies than originals among people. By Pablo Picasso

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

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

It takes a long time to grow young. By Pablo Picasso

Basically the French are all peasants. By Pablo Picasso

When you're really young, you're young for life. By Pablo Picasso

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse ... but surely you will see the wildness! By Pablo Picasso

Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot. By Pablo Picasso

Sex and art are the same thing. By Pablo Picasso

Art is a leap into the dark. By Pablo Picasso

Paradise is to love many things with a passion. By Pablo Picasso

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

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. By Pablo Picasso

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? By Pablo Picasso

I am exhausted if I don't work. By Pablo Picasso

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. By Pablo Picasso

Good taste is the enemy of creativity. By Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundation of all success. By Pablo Picasso

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. By Pablo Picasso

The path to youth takes a lifetime. By Pablo Picasso

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

Computers are stupid. By Pablo Picasso

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation. By Pablo Picasso

Why assume that to look is to see? By Pablo Picasso

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat. By Pablo Picasso

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. By Pablo Picasso

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

We now know that Art is not the truth ... but rather a way of approaching the truth. By Pablo Picasso

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint. By Pablo Picasso

Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible. By Pablo Picasso

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. By Pablo Picasso

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. By Pablo Picasso

It is not what an artist does that counts ... but what he is. By Pablo Picasso

Lord, protect me from what I want! By Pablo Picasso

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working. By Pablo Picasso

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. By Pablo Picasso

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

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

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. By Pablo Picasso

If you can imagine it ... it is real By Pablo Picasso

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! By Pablo Picasso

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

Don't waste your youth growing up. By Pablo Picasso

Art is lies that tell the truth. By Pablo Picasso

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken. By Pablo Picasso

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should. By Pablo Picasso

Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting. By Pablo Picasso

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. By Pablo Picasso

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder By Pablo Picasso

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.' By Pablo Picasso

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. By Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. By Pablo Picasso

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me. By Pablo Picasso

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. By Pablo Picasso

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? By Pablo Picasso

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use. By Pablo Picasso

Action is the fundamental key to success. By Pablo Picasso

We don't grow older we grow riper. By Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find. By Pablo Picasso

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. By Pablo Picasso

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. By Pablo Picasso

We have learned nothing. By Pablo Picasso

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I. By Pablo Picasso

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart By Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. By Pablo Picasso

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary. By Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. By Pablo Picasso

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects By Pablo Picasso

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth. By Pablo Picasso

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. By Pablo Picasso

Everything we can dream can be real. By Pablo Picasso

We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust - entropy always wins. By Pablo Picasso

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

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. By Pablo Picasso

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm. By Pablo Picasso

I do not evolve, I AM. By Pablo Picasso

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. By Pablo Picasso

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. By Pablo Picasso

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. By Pablo Picasso

I imitate everyone except myself. By Pablo Picasso

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. By Pablo Picasso

There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others. By Pablo Picasso

I don't work from nature, I work like nature. By Pablo Picasso

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world. By Pablo Picasso

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

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

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. By Pablo Picasso

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax. By Pablo Picasso

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. By Pablo Picasso

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans. By Pablo Picasso

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels. By Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. By Pablo Picasso

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability? By Pablo Picasso

I don't develop; I am. By Pablo Picasso

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers. By Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. By Pablo Picasso

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. By Pablo Picasso

People who read are people who dream. By Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. By Pablo Picasso

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good. By Pablo Picasso

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. By Pablo Picasso

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

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass. By Pablo Picasso

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline. By Pablo Picasso

If I don't have red, I use blue. By Pablo Picasso

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. By Pablo Picasso

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. By Pablo Picasso

I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another. By Pablo Picasso

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us. By Pablo Picasso

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. By Pablo Picasso

You don't make art, you find it By Pablo Picasso

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

Youth has no age. By Pablo Picasso

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be. By Pablo Picasso

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. By Pablo Picasso

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

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. By Pablo Picasso

[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am By Pablo Picasso

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness. By Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that reveals the truth. By Pablo Picasso

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

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal By Pablo Picasso

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness. By Pablo Picasso

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. By Pablo Picasso

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future. By Pablo Picasso

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays ... By Pablo Picasso

I paint what I think, not what I see. By Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand. By Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. By Pablo Picasso

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. By Pablo Picasso

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. By Pablo Picasso

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. By Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. By Pablo Picasso

Love is the greatest refreshment in life By Pablo Picasso

It took me a lifetime. By Pablo Picasso

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. By Pablo Picasso

Learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist. By Pablo Picasso

All things considered, there is only Matisse. By Pablo Picasso

All art is subversive. By Pablo Picasso

There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats. By Pablo Picasso

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? By Pablo Picasso

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody. By Pablo Picasso

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately. By Pablo Picasso

To find is the thing. By Pablo Picasso

Imagination is real. By Pablo Picasso

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one. By Pablo Picasso

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. By Pablo Picasso

I see for others ... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. By Pablo Picasso

Painting is a jeu d'esprit. By Pablo Picasso

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance. By Pablo Picasso

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. By Pablo Picasso