583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that’s a luxury I cannot afford.

Now there is fame! Of all – hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public – fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.

I’ve reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

I don’t develop; I am.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don’t know nor can I do anything else.

The trouble is, we’ve been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

Painting is a jeu d’esprit.

Painting isn’t a question of sensibility; it’s a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.