Quotes from Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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.

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

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.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

We don't grow older we grow riper.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

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

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

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

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

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

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

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

It took me a lifetime.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

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

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

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

Sex and art are the same thing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

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