Pablo Picasso Quotes
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What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.
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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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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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We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
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If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.
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People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!
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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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How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.
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One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
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You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.
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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.
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I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
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For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.
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I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
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I want to know one thing, what is color?
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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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Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
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Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.
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Action is the foundation of all success.
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It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
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In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.
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The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.