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.
I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.
If it’s good, it’s mine. If it’s bad, it’s a fake.
Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn’t take place from form, from the physical world. You’ve got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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.
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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.
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
There’s nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
When I haven’t any blue I use red.
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.