Pablo Picasso Quotes
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
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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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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
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Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
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The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.
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I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
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To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
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Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
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When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
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All things considered, there is only Matisse.
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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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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
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There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
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The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
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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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Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
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We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.
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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.