„To contradict. To show one eye full face and one in profile. Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them! My painting is a series of non-sequiturs. …“

— Pablo Picasso

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„There is only one way to see things,until someone shows us how to look at themwith different eyes“
— Pablo Picasso
„Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many as hiding places. There is a goal, but no way; what we call a way is hesitation.“
— Franz Kafka
„One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.“
— Gertrude Stein
„When I played, I would face up to a defender, I would beat him with my eyes, send him the wrong way; I would look one way and then go the other.“
— Pelé
„There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.“
— Anaïs Nin
„They speak of naturalism in opposition to modern painting. I would like to know if anyone has ever seen a natural work of art. Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. Velasquez left us his idea of the people of his epoch. Undoubtedly they were different from what he painted them, but we cannot conceive a Philip IV in any other way than the one Velasquez painted…“
— Pablo Picasso