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" 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. "

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People

Beautiful

Problems

" The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. "

" One must act in painting as in life, directly. "

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

" We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. "

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Out

Things

" 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. "

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

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

" I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. "

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

Pablo Picasso

Older

Grow

" Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. "

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

" Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? "

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

" 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. "

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

" Action is the foundational key to all success. "

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

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

Pablo Picasso

Along

Ways

" The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. "

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

" Good artists copy, great artists steal. "

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

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

" Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. "

" 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. "

Pablo Picasso

Blind

Himself

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

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

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

" I do not seek. I find. "