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

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" Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. "

" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I do not seek. I find. "

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

" All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. "

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

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

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

" Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. "

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. "

" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

" God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. "

" Good artists copy, great artists steal. "

" To draw you must close your eyes and sing. "

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

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

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