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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.
The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.
We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.