One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo PicassoAge only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
Pablo PicassoWhen you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.
Pablo PicassoFormerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.
Pablo Picasso