"If you have five elements available use..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
More by Pablo Picasso
“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.”
“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”
“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
More on Simplicity
“The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.”
“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”
“Where I live, everything is very small.”
More on Efficiency
“A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.”
“The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.”
“Good walking leaves no track behind it.”