Quote by Pablo Picasso
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. – Pablo Picasso

Other quotes by Pablo Picasso

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. – Pablo Picasso

Category:
good
Read Quote

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Pablo Picasso

Category:
Art
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Portraits
category

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: theres another dog. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Category:
Portraits

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Portraits

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. – Oliver Cromwell

Category:
Portraits

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Portraits

Random Quotes

A book that is shut is but a block. – Thomas Fuller

Category:
Books

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. – Christopher Columbus

Category:
Men

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasnt supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that. – Jason Aldean

Category:
mom

Cure the disease and kill the patient. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Doctors