583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.