Pablo Picasso

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

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

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

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.