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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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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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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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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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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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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Iimitate everyone except myself.
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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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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The more technique there is, the less there is.
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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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Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
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There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
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You can't run a without taking risks.
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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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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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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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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
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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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Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
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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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You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.
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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
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When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.