Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

You don’t make art, you find it.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don’t start measuring her legs.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

All art is erotic.

Pablo Picasso

All things considered, there is only Matisse.

Pablo Picasso

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

Pablo Picasso