Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Quote by Pablo Picasso

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A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes...

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes...

I should like to live like a poor man, with a great deal of money.

I should like to live like a poor man, with a great deal of money.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand...

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand...

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the...

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the...

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

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

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face...

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face...

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Youth has no age.

Youth has no age.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into...

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into...

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

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

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we...

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we...

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may...

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may...

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same...

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same...

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use...

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use...

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

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

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating...

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating...