"I would like to manage to prevent..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.”

“To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.”

“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”

“For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.”

“You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.”

“Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.”

“Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.”

“Fear is cruel and mean.”

“The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.”