Challenges

Dear Mr. Picasso,

You look dismayed. Truly, I did not want to deface your drawing, but I already had one naked man on my blog, and I really needed "a Picasso" to accompany this quote. Do you not find it fitting?

Respectfully,
Mole

Perhaps if I quote him, he will feel better:

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I am always doing that which I cannot do,

in order that I may learn how to do it.

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

It takes a long time to become young.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Success is dangerous.

One begins to copy oneself,

and to copy oneself is

more dangerous than to copy others.

It leads to sterility.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets

- and it's always in your face.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

There is no abstract art.

You must always start with something.

Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense!

To finish it means to be through with it,

to kill it, to rid it of its soul,

to give it its final blow the coup de grace

for the painter as well as for the picture.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up?
Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter?
That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest?
Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?
Deformations simply do not exist.

Who sees the human face correctly:
the photographer,
the mirror,
or the painter?

~End Quote