Pablo Picasso

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

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

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

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

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

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

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing _x000D_ it?

Action is the fundamental key to success.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun