Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became 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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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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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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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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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.
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Youth has no age.
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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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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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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.
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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.