![]() ![]() What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.” “People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.” But in the long run nothing is lost the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.” “I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. ![]() Not only in order to live, but primarily so that he can realize his work.” “Nothing can be done without solitude.” “In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. Why not try to understand the songs of a bird?” “Of course, you can paint pictures by matching up different parts of them so that they go nicely together, but they'll lack any kind of drama.” “It has often been said that an artist should work for himself, for the love of art, and scorn success. But what he is.” “Everyone wants to understand art. He just keeps on trying other things.” “It's not what the artist does that counts. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. The accidental reveals man.” “God is really only another artist. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” “Is this frighteningly precocious child not fated to bestow the consecration of a masterpiece on the negative sense of living, the illness from which he more than anyone else seems to be suffering?” “If you don't know what color to take, take black.” “Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. I could have stayed there forever, drawing without stopping.” “When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly. This does not imply either evolution or progress it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.” “If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.” “When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.” “Everything you can imagine is real.” “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” “For being a bad student, I was banished to the 'calaboose,' a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. “Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should. ![]()
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