"I don't know in advance what I..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“If I don't have red, I use blue.”

“Painting is a jeu d'esprit.”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.”

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

“It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.”

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.”

“Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.”

“The first draft of anything is sh*t.”