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" If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. "

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" Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. "

" 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. "

" Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? "

" The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. "

" 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. "

" I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! "

" 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. "

" One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. "

" Youth has no age. "

" We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. "

" 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. "

" Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. "

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

" The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. "

" The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. "

" Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. "

" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "

" You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. "

" 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. "

" I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. "

" I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. "

" Love is the greatest refreshment in life. "

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

" You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. "

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

" Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. "

" To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. "

" What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. "

" To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. "

" If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. "