583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.