Eggs 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 search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg.…

— Pablo Picasso

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

— Willem de Kooning

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

— Sara Genn

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

— Willem de Kooning

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

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

— Charles Baudelaire

When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has…

— Bruce Lee

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

— Marcel Duchamp

When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than…

— Cennino Cennini

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.—In fact, the world is full of…

— George Eliot