Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Youth has no age.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
