Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
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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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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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What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
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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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Action is the foundation of all success.
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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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If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
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Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.
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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
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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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Art is a leap into the dark.
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You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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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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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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For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
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Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.
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For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.
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Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
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People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.