Pablo Picasso

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

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

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

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

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

I want to know one thing, what is color?

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

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

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

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.