Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
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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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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
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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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What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.
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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.
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There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
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No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.
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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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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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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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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
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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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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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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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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
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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.
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
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To find is the thing.