"There ought to be an absolute dictatorship......" - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“I want to know one thing, what is color?”

“I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.”

“I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.”

“That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.”

“Once out of nature I shall never takeMy bodily form from any natural thing,But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make”

“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.”

“If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.”

“You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.”

“The world is his who has money to go over it.”