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| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. | | Art | |
| We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities. | | Uncategorized | |
| We don't grow older, we grow riper | | Age | |
| We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. | | Painting; Sincerity; Time; Youth | |
| What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness. | | Art; Artists | |
| What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Painting; Success | |
| When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately. | | Uncategorized | |
| When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately. | | Uncategorized | |
| When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. | | Right | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg. | | Art | |
| Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? | | Painting | |
| Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. | | Uncategorized | |
