pablo picasso

“ It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues. I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesnt evoke any image. It does not inspire. ”

“ If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. ”

“ Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. ”

“ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ”

“ An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. ”

“ Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. ”

“ To draw you must close your eyes and sing. ”

“ 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. ”