When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the…

Quote by Pablo Picasso

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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.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it...

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it...

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful?...

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful?...

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more...

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier,...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier,...

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we...

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we...

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.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain...

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain...

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if...

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if...

Beauty?...To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its...

Beauty?...To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its...

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of...

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...

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs...

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs...

Charity creates a multitude of sins. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a...

Charity creates a multitude of sins. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a...

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a...

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a...