Quotes from Pablo Picasso

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for

Love is the greatest refreshment in life

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

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

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

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

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

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

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.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as 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.

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

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

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

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

But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

The artist is a receptacle for the 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.

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.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.