"An idea is a point of departure..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
More by Pablo Picasso
“I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
“People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.”
More on Ideas
“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.”
“Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.”
“All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.”
More on Thought
“I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind ofDescartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.”
“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.”
“A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.”