To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - 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
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. - Pablo Picasso
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. - Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso
There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes. - Pablo Picasso
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. - Pablo Picasso
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. - Pablo Picasso