Pablo Picasso Quotes
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When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
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The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.
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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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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
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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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When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
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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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The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
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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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Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
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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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We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.
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Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.
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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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If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.
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I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
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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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There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
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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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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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Art is lies that tell the truth.
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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.