The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
Pablo PicassoIf you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
Pablo PicassoThe more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo PicassoThe academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.
Pablo Picasso