583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays...