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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.
-Pablo Picasso
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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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Books by and about Pablo Picasso