My studio is a sort of laboratory. . . . On occasion my paintings have beauty . . . but what matters is how they are created鈥攅very line that is added, the transition from one stage to another. That is what painting is about, part poetry, part philosophy.1(p38)鈥�Pablo Picasso
I certainly had no intention of painting symbols; I just painted the images that rose before my eyes. It is for other people to find hidden meanings in them. As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself.2(p121)鈥�Pablo Picasso