Pablo Picasso

Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.

I do not seek. I find.

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.