Pablo Picasso

The Picasso you read about is not Picasso.

I paint to forget.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by force of circumstances.

The essential is invisible to the eyes.

One never goes further than when one doesn't know where one is going.

I would like to live as an artist till I die, and then I would like to be born again and live as a painter.

Youth has no age.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never exposed to the public. Like a divine courtesan, it is always ready to change her lovers, as long as they are passionate. A hideous old hag, she is always ready to provide her body to anyone who will defile it.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a mask? Or is it the face under the mask? Or is it the face under the make-up?

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

He who thinks he can, and he who thinks he can't, are both usually right.

Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.

I want to make a picture that will be a prayer.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it's too late.

You don't make art, you find it.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

It is not enough to know how to paint, it is necessary to know what to paint.