583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.

I am exhausted if I don't work.