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I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
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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.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Pablo Picasso -
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
Pablo Picasso -
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
Pablo Picasso -
There's nothing more difficult than a line.
Pablo Picasso -
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
Pablo Picasso -
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
Pablo Picasso
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All things considered, there is only Matisse.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso -
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.
Pablo Picasso -
Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
Pablo Picasso -
A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
I hate it when people pilfer my things.
Pablo Picasso -
We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Pablo Picasso -
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso -
Action is the foundation of all success.
Pablo Picasso -
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
Pablo Picasso