583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.