When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
PABLO PICASSOWhen you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
PABLO PICASSOThe chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
PABLO PICASSOPeople want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age.
PABLO PICASSOSuccess is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
PABLO PICASSOThe first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
PABLO PICASSOWhen I haven’t any blue I use red.
PABLO PICASSOWhen I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
PABLO PICASSOLearn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
PABLO PICASSOArt is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
PABLO PICASSOThere is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
PABLO PICASSOComputers are useless. They can only give you answers.
PABLO PICASSOThe more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.
PABLO PICASSOYou have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
PABLO PICASSOI paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
PABLO PICASSOGod 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.
PABLO PICASSOWho sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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