583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!