Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
Pablo PicassoThere is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo PicassoAs far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
Pablo PicassoEveryone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo PicassoWhy 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.
Pablo PicassoIf you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
Pablo Picasso