Clear Quote by Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign…

— Joan Miro

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

— Sara Genn

The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an…

— Jean Helion

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings…

— Kehinde Wiley

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

— David Chang

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind…

— Kerry James Marshall

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

— Mary Ellen Mark