Pablo Picasso Want Quotations

Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

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.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

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?

Lord, protect me from what I want!

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

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

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

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

I want to know one thing, what is color?