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.
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I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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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.
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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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.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up.
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