Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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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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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
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You can't run a without taking risks.
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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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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.
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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
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There's nothing more difficult than a line.
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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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There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
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...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... 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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I don't develop; I am.
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The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
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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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What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.
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I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.
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I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
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We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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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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That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.