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" He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. "

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" 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. "

" When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. "

" The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? "

" I do not seek. I find. "

" Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. "

" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "

" The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. "

" 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. "

" Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? "

" 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. "

" An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. "

" Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. "

" To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. "

" I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. "

" What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. "

" You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. "

" 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. "

" If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. "

" When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. "

" Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. "

" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "

" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

" I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. "

" I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! "

" If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. "

" Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? "

" They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. "

" Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. "

" It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. "