583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.

I would like to live like a poor person with a lot of money.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?