When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
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 PicassoI paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
Pablo Picasso