Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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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.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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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.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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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.
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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.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am
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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.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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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.
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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.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.