Pablo Picasso

Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Pablo Picasso

Painting isn’t made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It’s ridiculous!

Pablo Picasso

People don’t realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

Pablo Picasso

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

Pablo Picasso

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Pablo Picasso

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Pablo Picasso

The earth doesn’t have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that’s come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

Pablo Picasso

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Pablo Picasso