To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso
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- It takes a long time to become young.
- Youth has no age.
- The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
- The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
- Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.