Pablo Picasso

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

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

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

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

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

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.

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

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

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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