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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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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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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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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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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Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.
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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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To find is the thing.
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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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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.
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Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.
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It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.
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I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
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Action is the foundation of all success.
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
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I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.
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Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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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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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.