Pablo Picasso Quotations | Page 3

Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

People who read are people who dream.

If you can imagine it...it is real

To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was...

I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.