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• Abstrakt kunst findes ikke, du mÃ¥ altid begynde med noget
• Alt hvad du kan forestille dig er virkeligt
• Avantgarden bliver hyppigere beskudt bagfra end forfra.
• Computere er ubrugelige. De kan kun give dig svar
• Da jeg var dreng, sagde min mor til mig: "Hvis du bliver soldat, ender du som general. Hvis du bliver munk, ender du som pave". Men i stedet blev jeg maler og endte som Picasso.
• De eksisterer ikke. Det er blot deres omgivelser, der bibringer dem en eksistens
• Der findes malere, der forvandler solen til en gul klat, men der findes andre, som takket være deres kunst og forstand, forvandler en gul klat til solen.
• Det tager lang tid at blive ung
• Einsteins geni førte til Hiroshima
• Enhver kreativ handling er først og fremmest en destruktiv handling
• Et billede lever kun for den, der betragter det.
• Hvert barn er en kunstner. Problemet er, hvorledes forbliver man kunstner, efter at man er blevet voksen
• Hvis man præcis ved, hvad man skal gøre, hvorfor sÃ¥ gøre det?
• Jeg ville gerne leve som en fattigprÃ¥s med en hel masse penge
• Kunsten er en løgn, som fÃ¥r os til at se sandheden
• NÃ¥r jeg er færdig med at male, maler jeg igen for at slappe af
• Smag er kreativitetens fjende
• Som barn er enhver kunstner. Vanskeligheden ligger i at forblive det som voksen.
• Ungdom har ingen alder

Engelske citater:

• Accidents, try to change them--it's impossible. The accidental reveals man
• Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth
• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers
• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up.
• Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting--that they must understand
• Everything you can imagine is real
• I do not seek, I find
• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them
• I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money
• It takes a long while to grow young
• Painting isn't an aesthetic operation, it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.
• The genius of Einstein led to Hiroshima
• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters
• When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso"
• Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock
• Youth has no age