"Only put off until tomorrow what
you are willing to die having left undone."
-Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and stage designer (part of cubism movement)
I interpret this quotation to be Picasso speaking of procrastination. I personally suffer from procrastination myself, tending to put things off until the very last minute until I'm forced to work on an assignment. This usually happens with pieces I'm uninterested in, such as school assignments that are technical pieces, void of emotion. What Picasso is saying is that procrastination is not necessarily a bad thing, but it makes you put your life in perspective because it forces you to see what you are not accomplishing in your life that you may have wanted to. With his statement, Picasso is saying that you need to accomplish as much as you can in your lifetime and what you leave untouched has to be what you're willing to accept that you can die with not having done.
Sampling of Picasso's work:
Guernica, oil on canvas. 1937.
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