An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. - Pablo Picasso
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. - Pablo Picasso
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. - Pablo Picasso
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included. - Pablo Picasso
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. - Pablo Picasso
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. - Pablo Picasso
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness! - Pablo Picasso
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. - Pablo Picasso
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. - Pablo Picasso
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. - Pablo Picasso
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