"When you begin a picture, you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather transforms it, condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur. I sell myself nothing."
–– Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist
Source: Christian Zervos. "Conversations avec Picasso." Cahiers d'Art 10 (1935), pp 173-78.
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