Pablo Picasso

Art is not made to decorate apartments. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.

The painting is not a decoration, it is a weapon.

I have never made a painting as a work of art. All of them are research.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Art is never chaste. It is a game, a game of the mind, a game of the senses.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is intelligible to us.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and I became Picasso.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a mask? Or is it a face we see in a mirror? We are all masks.

I want to make a picture, and I want to make it so that it will be a picture of a man, and I want to make it so that it will be a picture of a man who is a man.

It is not what the artist does that counts, but what he is.

I am a communist and I am a painter. I am a communist without being a painter, and I am a painter without being a communist.

We must not be afraid to invent.

The artist is a political being, constantly aware of the heart-rending, burning, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image.

Painting is a profession of a blind man. He doesn't paint what he sees, but what he feels.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Why do you think I date young women? Because I like their company. And they like mine. It's as simple as that.

I want to make a picture that will be a monument to the truth.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid. The future will choose the pages it prefers.

I do not want to be a modern artist. I want to be an ancient artist.

You mustn't be afraid of what you're doing when you're working. When you're painting, you must be like a beast.