01UndatedThe world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
02UndatedWhatever 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.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
03UndatedWhat do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
07UndatedWhat one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
08UndatedThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
11UndatedIf I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
12UndatedThe fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
15UndatedWe artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
17UndatedTwo boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
19UndatedWhen you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
21UndatedGod is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
23UndatedEveryone 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.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
24UndatedPainting 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.Pablo Picasso / quote ↗
