When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
Pablo PicassoRhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
Pablo PicassoThe connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
Pablo PicassoIn art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
Pablo PicassoYou know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.
Pablo Picasso