Pablo Picasso

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!

Pablo Picasso

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Pablo Picasso

If I were to sign it now, I’d be committing forgery. I’d be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

Pablo Picasso

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Pablo Picasso

If there is something to steal, I steal it.

Pablo Picasso

If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven’t got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it’s false.

Pablo Picasso

If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

Pablo Picasso

If you know exactly what you’re going to do, what’s the good in doing it?

Pablo Picasso

If you’re stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

Pablo Picasso