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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
-Pablo Picasso
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Age
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It takes a long time to become young.
-Pablo Picasso
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Apathy
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It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
-Pablo Picasso
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Art
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
-Pablo Picasso
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-Pablo Picasso
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Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
-Pablo Picasso
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
-Pablo Picasso
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I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
-Pablo Picasso
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
-Pablo Picasso
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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
-Pablo Picasso
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
-Pablo Picasso
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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
-Pablo Picasso
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-Pablo Picasso
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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
-Pablo Picasso
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
-Pablo Picasso
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
-Pablo Picasso
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
-Pablo Picasso
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Artist, The
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The artist is a receptacle for the 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.
-Pablo Picasso
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.
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It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! ... I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.
-Pablo Picasso
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All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superflous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
-Pablo Picasso
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
-Pablo Picasso
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Beauty
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
-Pablo Picasso
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Censorship
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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.
-Pablo Picasso
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Children
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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
-Pablo Picasso
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Color
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
-Pablo Picasso
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
-Pablo Picasso
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Computers
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-Pablo Picasso
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Creativity
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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
-Pablo Picasso
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I do not seek, I find.
-Pablo Picasso
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Criticism
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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.
-Pablo Picasso
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Culture
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If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.
-Pablo Picasso
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Face, Faces
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
-Pablo Picasso
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Facts
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.
-Pablo Picasso
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Fame
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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
-Pablo Picasso
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Fashion
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
-Pablo Picasso
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Genius
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
-Pablo Picasso
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
-Pablo Picasso
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God
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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.
-Pablo Picasso
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Ideas
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
-Pablo Picasso, Quoted in: Jaime Sabart
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Imagination
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Everything you can imagine is real.
-Pablo Picasso
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Imitation
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
-Pablo Picasso
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Individuality
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
-Pablo Picasso
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Loyalty
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
-Pablo Picasso
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Miracles
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
-Pablo Picasso
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Mistakes
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Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
-Pablo Picasso
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Museums, Galleries
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Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
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Nudity
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You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.
-Pablo Picasso
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Portraits
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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
-Pablo Picasso
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Progress
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
-Pablo Picasso
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Prophecy
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
-Pablo Picasso
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Purpose
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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
-Pablo Picasso
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Style
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Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
-Pablo Picasso
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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
-Pablo Picasso
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Success & Failure
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I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
-Pablo Picasso
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Sympathy
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
-Pablo Picasso
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Talent
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
-Pablo Picasso
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Things, Little Things
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
-Pablo Picasso
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Trust
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
-Pablo Picasso
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Wealth
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
-Pablo Picasso
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Work
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
-Pablo Picasso
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Youth
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
-Pablo Picasso
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Books by and about Pablo Picasso
