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When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you
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Iimitate everyone except myself.
Pablo Picasso
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
Pablo Picasso -
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
Pablo Picasso -
Basically the French are all peasants.
Pablo Picasso -
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
Pablo Picasso -
I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
Pablo Picasso -
We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.
Pablo Picasso
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
Pablo Picasso -
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
Pablo Picasso -
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
Pablo Picasso -
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
Pablo Picasso -
Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
Pablo Picasso -
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
Pablo Picasso
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Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.
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When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.
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What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.
Pablo Picasso -
Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
Pablo Picasso -
Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.
Pablo Picasso -
I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.
Pablo Picasso
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Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.
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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!
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
Pablo Picasso