Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
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.
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
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