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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Pablo Picasso -
You can't run a without taking risks.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Pablo Picasso -
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
Pablo Picasso -
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.
Pablo Picasso -
I want to know one thing, what is color?
Pablo Picasso -
What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.
Pablo Picasso -
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
Pablo Picasso
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For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
Pablo Picasso -
When you're really young, you're young for life.
Pablo Picasso -
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
Pablo Picasso -
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.
Pablo Picasso -
I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
Pablo Picasso -
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
Pablo Picasso
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I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.
Pablo Picasso -
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
Pablo Picasso -
When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
Pablo Picasso -
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso -
I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
Pablo Picasso -
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
Pablo Picasso
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I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
Pablo Picasso -
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
Pablo Picasso -
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
Pablo Picasso -
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Pablo Picasso