creativity Quotes

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

I do not seek. I find.

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 portrait.

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

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

When I was a child, 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 copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.