Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I want to know one thing, what is color?
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I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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Action is the foundation of all success.
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Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
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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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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.
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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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If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
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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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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 only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
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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.
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Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.
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I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.
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I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
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I have had no true friends, only lovers.
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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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The more technique there is, the less there is.
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They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.