Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.
Pablo PicassoWhen I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
Pablo Picasso