Youth has no age.- Pablo Picasso
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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 die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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.
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.
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.
We do not grow older, we grow riper.
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.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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.
