583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.....

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.

I should like to live like a poor man, with a great deal of money