Guernica Quotations

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»