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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso -
I draw like other people bite their nails.
Pablo Picasso -
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso -
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso -
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Pablo Picasso -
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
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[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am
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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.
Pablo Picasso -
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 -
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 -
You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.
Pablo Picasso -
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
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The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.
Pablo Picasso -
On August 2, 1914, I took Braque and Derain to the Gare d'Avignon drafted as a soldier for World war 1. I never saw them again not literally a fact, but the close relation between Picasso and Braque ended.
Pablo Picasso -
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso -
For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
Pablo Picasso -
They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.
Pablo Picasso -
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso
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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
Pablo Picasso -
Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
Pablo Picasso -
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
Pablo Picasso -
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
Pablo Picasso