Pablo Picasso Quotes
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You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
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You can't run a without taking risks.
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To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.
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It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.
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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it
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Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
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I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
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A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
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Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
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Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
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There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
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Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!
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How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
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An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.
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A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
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There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
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Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.