583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

For me, there are two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

Today we haven’t the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

When I haven’t any blue I use red.

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

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.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

The earth doesn’t have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get ‘green’ indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.