583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.