583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

Art is a leap into the dark.

For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.

The more technique there is, the less there is

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us...