Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
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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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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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If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
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People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
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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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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.
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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
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Basically the French are all peasants.
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I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
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I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
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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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Art is lies that tell the truth.
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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!
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I hate it when people pilfer my things.
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I don't develop; I am.
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One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
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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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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.