"What other movement determines the S line?..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”

“Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?”

“Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.”

“Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.”

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.”

“Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.”

“Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.”