 We don't grow older, we grow riper. |
| An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. |
| Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. |
| Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. |
| 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. |
| Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. |
| Love is the greatest refreshment in life. |
| Youth has no age. Topics: Short |
| One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. |
| Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. |
| The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. |
| Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. |
| To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. |
| My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. |
| The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. |
| Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. |
| Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. |
| Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. |
| Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. |
| Action is the foundational key to all success. |
