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 have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.
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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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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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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 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 want to know one thing, what is color?
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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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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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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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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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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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A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.
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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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To find is the thing.
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I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
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If I don't have red, I use blue.
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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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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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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.
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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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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.