Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
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I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
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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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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
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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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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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The more technique there is, the less there is.
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For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping
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If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
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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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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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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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We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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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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There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
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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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If you don't know what color to take, take black.
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I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
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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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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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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.