Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I do not seek, I find.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

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 was a painter, and became Picasso.

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

I am against the word 'art.' It's a word that has been used to cover up a lot of nonsense.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I don't believe in accidents. There are no accidents. Everything is fate.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

I do not evolve, I am. In art, there are no past or future.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a mask? Or is it a face that has been lived?

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

If I haven't got red, I use blue.

He who sees the human face correctly, sees the divine.