Pablo Picasso

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Youth has no age.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

It takes a long time to become young.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

My mother said to me "If you become a soldier you'll be a general if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.