583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further...

I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.