You don't make art, you find it

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

I imitate everyone except myself.

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.