583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

You don't make art, you find it

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.