It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues. I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn’t evoke any image. It does not inspire. How could Michelangelo […]
Pablo Picasso Quotes
People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It’s ridiculous! In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the […]
The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
