Pablo Picasso Paint Quotations

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child

I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.