When Pablo Picasso brings the subject of chains into the urge to create, he is speaking of the very best creators:
Where do I get this power of creating and forming? I don’t know. I have only one thought: work. I paint just as I breathe. When I work, I relax; not doing anything or entertaining visitors makes me tired. It’s still often 3:00 a.m. when I switch off my light . . . There’s never a moment when you can say, “I’ve worked well and to-morrow is Sunday.” As soon as you stop, it’s because you’ve started again. You can put a picture aside and say you won’t touch it again. But you can never write THE END . . . Freedom one must be very careful with that. In painting as in everything else. Whatever you do, you find yourself once more in chains. Freedom not to do one thing requires that you do another, imperatively. And there you have it, chains.
(Quoted from page 78 of A Psychoanalytic Approach to Visual Artists by James W. Hamilton. Karnac, 2012.)
For a brief biography of Pablo Picasso, click here. For images of or relating to Pablo Picasso, click here.
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Where do I get this power of creating and forming? I don’t know. I have only one thought: work. I paint just as I breathe. When I work, I relax; not doing anything or entertaining visitors makes me tired. It’s still often 3:00 a.m. when I switch off my light . . . There’s never a moment when you can say, “I’ve worked well and to-morrow is Sunday.” As soon as you stop, it’s because you’ve started again. You can put a picture aside and say you won’t touch it again. But you can never write THE END . . . Freedom one must be very careful with that. In painting as in everything else. Whatever you do, you find yourself once more in chains. Freedom not to do one thing requires that you do another, imperatively. And there you have it, chains.
(Quoted from page 78 of A Psychoanalytic Approach to Visual Artists by James W. Hamilton. Karnac, 2012.)
For a brief biography of Pablo Picasso, click here. For images of or relating to Pablo Picasso, click here.
For biographical information about James W. Hamilton, click here.
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