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Action(s)
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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.
-Pablo 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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Books by and about Pablo Picasso