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| The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. |
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| Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. |
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| When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. |
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| Everything you can imagine is real. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. |
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| Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| I do not seek. I find. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. |
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| Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| We don't grow older, we grow riper. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| If there is something to steal, I steal it!. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| I don't say everything, but I paint everything. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Painting is stronger than I am. It can make me do whatever it wants. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Love is the greatest refreshment in life. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? |
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| Pablo Picasso |
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| Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. |
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