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"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."
"There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning."
"Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken."
"It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is."
"The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous."
"Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was."
"You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things."
"When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace."
"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."
"Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create."
"If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary."
"It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace."
"You're either a goddess ... or a doormat."
"If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint."
"If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you."
"Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more."
"Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand."
""Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance."
"The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever."
"So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers."