There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
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.Pablo Picasso
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.Pablo Picasso
Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.Jean-Paul Sartre
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.Jean-Paul Sartre
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.Jean-Paul Sartre
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.Salvador Dalí
