Pablo Picasso Quote

In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture — then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else

Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 267) - "Conversations avec Picasso," 1934-35

In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my...

In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my...

In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my...

In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my...