“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.”
Work
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
WorkAll Quotes by Pablo Picasso
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Good“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.”
Mom“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
Art“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Art“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”
Truth“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
Work“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
Art“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
Success“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
Art“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.”
Art“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
Work“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Success“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
Success“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
Art“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
Computers“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
History“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
Positive“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
Art“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
Art