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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse ... but surely you will see the wildness! — Pablo Picasso

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths. — Jean Cocteau

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended. — Jerry Saltz

Good taste is the enemy of creativity. — Pablo Picasso

In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition. — Norman Mailer

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. — Pablo Picasso

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. — Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find. — Pablo Picasso

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money. — Pablo Picasso

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. — Pablo Picasso

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. — Pablo Picasso

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. — Pablo Picasso

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso

The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults. — Paloma Picasso

All Children are Artists — Pablo Picasso

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats. — Pablo Picasso

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. — Pablo Picasso

My hand tells me what I'm thinking. — Pablo Picasso

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age ... — Pablo Picasso

We have learned nothing. — Pablo Picasso

You couldn't forget [Pablo] Picasso, [Henri] Matisse and [Joan] Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better. — Frank Stella

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I. — Pablo Picasso

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? — Pablo Picasso

The people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso — Aretha Franklin

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. — Pablo Picasso

If there is something to steal, I steal it. — Pablo Picasso

If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three. — Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers. - Pablo Picasso — David Bayles

Lord, protect me from what I want! — Pablo Picasso

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. — David Hockney

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working. — Pablo Picasso

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. — Andre Malraux

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. — Pablo Picasso

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart — Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. — Pablo Picasso

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue. — Pablo Picasso

You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it. — Pablo Picasso

EVERYTHING IS A MIRACLE. IT IS A MIRACLE THAT ONE DOES NOT MELT IN ONE'S BATH. - PICASSO — Laini Taylor

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. — Pablo Picasso

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy. — Margaret Keane

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing
it? — Pablo Picasso

If you don't know what color to take, take black ... — Pablo Picasso

I'm not a developer; I am. — Pablo Picasso

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? — Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Lauren — Viola Shipman

I do not evolve, I AM. — Pablo Picasso

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain. — Billy Cannon

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. — Pablo Picasso

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism. — Tracey Emin

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. — Pablo Picasso

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

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. — Pablo Picasso

Everything we can dream can be real. — Pablo Picasso

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art. — Pablo Picasso

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. — Pablo Picasso

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth. — Pablo Picasso

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else. — Pablo Picasso

Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement. — Paloma Picasso

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one. — Pablo Picasso

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them. — Pablo Picasso

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. — Sean Connery

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects — Pablo Picasso

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. — Pablo Picasso

If you can imagine it ... it is real — Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica). — Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. — Pablo Picasso

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. — Pablo Picasso

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' — Larry Ellison

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. — Pablo Picasso

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. — Rita Rudner

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. — Pablo Picasso

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words. — Pablo Picasso

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. — Pablo Picasso

To be young, really young, takes a very long time. — Pablo Picasso

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. — Pablo Picasso

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested. — E.L. Konigsburg

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. — Pablo Picasso

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. — Pablo Picasso

One must act in painting as in life, directly. — Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real. — Picasso Pablo

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. — Pablo Picasso

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible. — James Frey

I imitate everyone except myself. — Pablo Picasso

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself. — Pablo Picasso

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things. — Jill Scott

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams. — Robert Breault

I'm a Picasso, not a Vermeer — David Arnold

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on. — Pablo Picasso

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. — Pablo Picasso

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form ... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice. — Pablo Picasso

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. — Pablo Picasso

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth Â£37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight. — Brian Blessed

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. — Pablo Picasso

In art, practice always comes before theory. — Pablo Picasso

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace. — Paloma Picasso