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[[Image:LA2-picasso-kristinehamn.jpg|thumb|right| Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-10-25 – 1973-04-08) was a Spanish artist

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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
  • For a long time I limited myself to one color — as a form of discipline.
    • On his "blue" and "rose" periods, from Picasso on Art
  • It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
    • On the first moon landing, The New York Times, (1969-07-21)
  • Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
    • La peinture n’est pas faite pour décorer des appartements. C’est un instrument de guerre offensive et défensive contre l’ennemi.
    • La pintura no se ha inventado para adornar las habitaciones. La pintura es un arma ofensiva, en la defensa contra el enemigo.
    • Les lettres françaises, (1943-03-24)
  • People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
    • Picasso on Art (1988) edited by Dore Ashton

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  • Los ordenadores son inútiles. Sólo pueden darte respuestas.
    • Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
  • Cuando me dicen que soy demasiado viejo para hacer una cosa, procuro hacerla enseguida.
    • When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.
  • El arte es una mentira que nos acerca a la verdad.
    • Art is a lie that leads us to the truth.
  • El camino de la juventud lleva toda una vida.
    • The path to youth takes a whole life.
  • Genio es personalidad con dos duros de talento.
    • Genius is personality with two pennies of talent.
  • Hace falta mucho, mucho tiempo para ser joven.
    • A long, long time is needed to be young.
  • La calidad de un pintor depende de la cantidad de pasado que lleve consigo.
    • The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
  • La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando.
    • Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
  • La pintura es más fuerte que yo, siempre consigue que haga lo que ella quiere.
    • The painting is stronger than me, it always gets me to do what it wants.
  • Me gusta vivir pobre... pero con mucho dinero.
    • I like to live poor... but with a lot of money.
  • Mi madre un día me dijo: "Si te haces soldado, serás General; si te haces monje, terminarás como el Papa." En cambio, me hice pintor y ahora soy Picasso.
    • One day, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you will be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." However, I became a painter and now I am Picasso.
  • Si se sabe exactamente lo que se va a hacer, ¿para qué hacerlo?.
    • If it is known exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
  • Si hubiera una sola verdad, no se podrían hacer cien lienzos sobre un mismo tema.
    • If there were only one truth, it wouldn't be possible to do 100 variations on the same theme.
  • Un pintor es un hombre que pinta lo que vende. Un artista, en cambio, es un hombre que vende lo que pinta.
    • A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man who sells what he paints.
  • Yo no busco, yo encuentro.
    • I do not search, I find.
  • Yo no digo todo, mas pinto todo.
    • I do not say everything, but I paint everything.
  • Yo no evoluciono, yo soy.
    • I do not evolve, I am.
  • Yo no pinto las cosas como las veo, yo pinto como las pienso.
    • I do not paint the things I see, I paint what I think.
  • Yo no trabajo según la Naturaleza, sino delante de ella, con ella. Un pintor debe observar la Naturaleza, pero jamás confundirla con la pintura.
    • I don't work according to Nature, but in front and together with it. An artist must observe Nature, but never confuse it with the art.
  • All I ever made was made for the present and in the hope it will always remain in the present.
  • Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
    • Reported last words
  • Every child is an artist. It's a challenge to remain an artist when you grow up.
  • 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.
  • Good art bristles with razor blades.
  • Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
  • I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
  • It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
  • North Pole, South Pole.
  • Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
  • The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
  • Theories are lies that help us to see the truth.
  • There are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.
  • We only wanted to express that which was within us.
    • Said in regard to the Cubist movement.

Quotations about Picasso

  • A friend built a modern house and he suggested that Picasso too should have one built. But, said Picasso, of course not, I want an old house. Imagine, he said, if Michael Angelo would have been pleased if someone had given him a fine piece of Renaissance furniture, not at all.
    • Gertrude Stein, Picasso (1938) [Dover, 1984, ISBN 0-486-24715-5], p. 31
    • Note: Stein used the spelling "Michael Angelo" rather than "Michelangelo." The quotation preserves this spelling.
  • Picasso es pintor, yo también; Picasso es español, yo también; Picasso es comunista, yo tampoco.
    • Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
    • Salvador Dalí (attributed)
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