“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct ...” — Pablo Picasso Quote

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”

“When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.”

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

“Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.”

“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.”

“Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.”