What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.
Pablo PicassoIf all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo PicassoI have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo PicassoThe revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
Pablo PicassoIt is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Pablo Picasso