583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.