Pablo Picasso

I am a public entertainer who has understood his time.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

I want to be a painter, and I want to be a poet, and I want to be a musician, and I want to be a writer, and I want to be an architect, and I want to be a philosopher, and I want to be a scientist, and I want to be a doctor, and I want to be a lawyer, and I want to be a politician, and I want to be a general, and I want to be a Pope, and I want to be God.

I paint forms as I know them, not as I see them.

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

I force myself to contradict myself to avoid conforming to my own taste.

One does not paint what one sees, one paints what one feels.

The artist is a person who invents something new, who discovers a new form of expression.

I am a collector, not an artist.

Why do you think I date young women? Because I'm a man who needs women.

I don't make love to women, I destroy them.

Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be there to complicate my existence.

Women are machines for suffering.

I would like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

I don't have a studio, I have a house.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Art is never chaste. It should be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never exposed to them. One must be well prepared to approach it.

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.

I believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.