Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Iimitate everyone except myself.
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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
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When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
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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.
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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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When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
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If you don't know what color to take, take black.
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The more technique there is, the less there is.
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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 consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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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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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 urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
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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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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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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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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
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...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.
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In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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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.