Pablo Picasso Quotes

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

Why assume that to look is to see?

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

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

I have had no true friends, only lovers.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

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

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

Basically the French are all peasants.