Quotes

- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

- Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

- Everything you can imagine is real.

- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

- Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

- There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

- There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

- The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

- My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

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

- I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

- People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.

- When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

- I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

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