Pablo Picasso Portraits Quotations

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.