Pablo Picasso Color Quotations

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.....

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

I want to know one thing, what is color?