Pablo Picasso People Quotations

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

People who read are people who dream.

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

There are more copies than originals among people.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...