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" Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. "

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" Everything you can imagine is real. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" It takes a long time to become young. "

" He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Good artists copy, great artists steal. "

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

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

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

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