It takes a very long time to become young.
I want you to learn about life... That woman's name is Germaine Pichot. She's old and toothless and poor and unfortunate now. But when she was young she was very pretty and she made a painter friend of mine suffer so much that he committed suicide. She was a young laundress when I first came to Paris. The first people we look up, this friend of mine and I, were this woman and friends of hers with whom she was living... She turned a lot of heads. Now look at her.
Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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 sun.
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.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once he grows up.
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
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.
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
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The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso
