Guernica Quotes

• When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

  Pablo Picasso

  Soldier, Looks, Used

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• Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

  Pablo Picasso

  Enemy, Weapons, Painting

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Giving, May

  "The Sociology of Architecture: Constructing Identities" by Paul Jones, (p. 47), 2011.

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• My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Struggle, Reactions

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso (2010). “The Picasso Book”, Tate

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• A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»

  Slavoj Žižek

  War, Paris, World

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• To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

  Claire Messud

  America, Intellectual, Mind

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• The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.

  Dahr Jamail

  Cities, America, United States

  Dahr Jamail (2016). “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”, p.239, Haymarket Books

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