Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have had no true friends, only lovers.
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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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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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Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
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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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They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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The more technique there is, the less there is.
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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.