Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Everything you can imagine is real.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
I do not seek. I find.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
It takes a long time to become young.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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.
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.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Youth has no age.
