-
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
-
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. <br />
-
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
-
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
-
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
-
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
-
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
-
When I was a child, my mother said to me,<br />
'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general.<br />
If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'<br />
Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
-
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
-
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
-
Everything you can imagine is real.
-
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
-
Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
-
The artist is a recepticle for the 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.
-
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.