Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.
As quoted in The Artist, vol. 93 (1978)
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Pablo Picasso quotes
1881-1973 ยท Artists and entertainers
Spanish painter and sculptor, co-founder of Cubism.
5 quotes, 4 traced to where Picasso said or wrote them.
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.
As quoted by Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form and The Film Sense (1957)
It takes a very long time to become young.
As quoted by Jean Cocteau, The Hand of a Stranger (1953)
[Computers] are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso: A Composite Interview by William Fifield, The Paris Review (1964)
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Attributed in posthumous publications; no primary source