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Art
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"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
-Pablo Picasso
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"Give me a museum, and I'll fill it."
-Pablo Picasso
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
-Pablo Picasso
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Artist, The
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The artist is a receptacle for the 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.
-Pablo Picasso
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.
-Pablo Picasso
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It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! ... I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.
-Pablo Picasso
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All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superflous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
-Pablo Picasso
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Ideas
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
-Pablo Picasso, Quoted in: Jaime Sabartés, Picasso: portraits et souvenirs, ch. 7 (1946).
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Wealth
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"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
-Pablo Picasso
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Work
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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
-Pablo Picasso
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Books by and about Pablo Picasso
