The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
Pablo PicassoIt is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
Pablo PicassoAge only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
Pablo PicassoPhotography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
Pablo Picasso