Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

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"As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language."
"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."
"Everything I need to know about Africa is in these objects."
"For a long time I limited myself to one color-as a form of discipline."
"For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography."
"I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that have come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it."
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
"The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
"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."
"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
"Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken."
"When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection."
"When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form … one inevitably ends up with an egg."
"[He] must have an angel in his head."