Pablo Picasso

Art is a leap into the dark.

Pablo Picasso

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.

Pablo Picasso

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Pablo Picasso

Art isn’t done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes – and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.

Pablo Picasso

Basically the French are all peasants.

Pablo 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.

Pablo Picasso

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

Pablo Picasso

Even if the painting is green, well then! The ‘subject’ is the green. There is always a subject; it’s a joke to suppress the subject, it’s impossible.

Pablo Picasso

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

Pablo Picasso