My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
There's nothing more difficult than a line.
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 happine...
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.
Kažete da ste neshvaćeni mladi prijatelju.
God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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.
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 a...
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...
It takes a long time to grow young.
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But pai...
When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.