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" The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? "

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" When I was a child, 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. "

" Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. "

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

" There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. "

" They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. "

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

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

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

" It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. "

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

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" 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. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. "

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" 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. "

" It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. "

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

" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "

" 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. "

" Everything you can imagine is real. "

" We don't grow older, we grow riper. "

" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "

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