Pablo Picasso Video

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

Affectations can be dangerous.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

The painting is complete when the idea is obliterated.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

"My music is best understood by children and animals."

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they try to stay in their forties too long.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

...and what shall I love if not the enigma.

If I had to put a sign over my door, I would write "School of Drawing" and I'm certain that I would create painters.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.