Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

Everything you can imagine is real.

For a long time I limited myself to one color—as a form of discipline.

Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

Good Artists copy, great artists steal.

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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars—it’s a luxury I can’t afford.

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