Pablo Picasso

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Pablo Picasso

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn’t evoke any image. It does not inspire.

Pablo Picasso

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

Pablo Picasso

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

Pablo Picasso

I’m a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

Pablo Picasso

I’ve reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

Pablo Picasso

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

Pablo Picasso

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

Pablo Picasso

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn’t tell you.

Pablo Picasso

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

Pablo Picasso