“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
- Pablo Picasso
“Painting is stronger than I am; it makes me do what it wants.”
- Pablo Picasso
Photo by Gjon Mili
Uncredited Photographer Pablo Picasso 1915
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” Pablo Picasso
“The souls of people do not interest him… For him, the reality of life is in the head, the face, and the body, and this is for him so important, so persistant, so complete that it is not at all necessary to think of any other thing - and the soul is another thing.”
— Gertrude Stein speaking about Picasso
Pablo Picasso
“When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
