Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

— Pablo Picasso

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.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.

— Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

— Pablo Picasso

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

— Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

— Pablo Picasso