583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

This idea of art for art’s sake is a hoax.

You don’t make art, you find it.

There’s nothing more difficult than a line.

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven’t got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it’s false.

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who “appreciate” beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There’s no such thing. I never “appreciate,” any more than I “like.” I love it or I hate.

You mustn’t expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn’t interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

There’s nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite – that particular peach is but a detail.

Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn’t take place from form, from the physical world. You’ve got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.