| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 44182 |
| QUOTATION: | Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.... We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spanish artist. “Conversation avec Picasso,” vol. 10, no. 10, Cahiers d’Art (Paris, 1935), trans. in Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (1946). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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