583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.

When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

You can't run a business without taking risks.