We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.
Pablo PicassoI am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
Pablo Picasso"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.
Pablo PicassoOften while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
Pablo Picasso