Pablo Picasso Quotes
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If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.
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That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.
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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
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Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.
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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.
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Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
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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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Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses.
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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 am exhausted if I don't work.
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I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
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What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.
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There's nothing more difficult than a line.
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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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A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
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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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Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
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If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
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I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.
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People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!