583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso

For a long time I limited myself to one colour – as a form of discipline.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it’s all gone.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can’t be recognized.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what’s in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

It’s not what the artist does that counts; it’s what he is.

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?