Disciples be damned. It’s not interesting. It’s only the masters that matter. Those who create. — Pablo Picasso
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can — Pablo Picasso
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. — Pablo Picasso
Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of einstein leads to hiroshima. — Pablo Picasso
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. — Pablo Picasso
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. — Pablo Picasso
If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. — Pablo Picasso
To finish a work? to finish a picture? what nonsense! to finish it means to be through with it — Pablo Picasso
What is a face, really? its own photo? its make-up? or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? — Pablo Picasso
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive — Pablo Picasso
You mustn’t always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. — Pablo Picasso