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The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
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I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
Pablo Picasso
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We have learned nothing.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
Pablo Picasso -
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
Pablo Picasso -
The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso -
I have had no true friends, only lovers.
Pablo Picasso
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I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
Pablo Picasso -
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
Pablo Picasso -
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
Pablo Picasso -
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Pablo Picasso
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Everything we can dream can be real.
Pablo Picasso -
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
Pablo Picasso -
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
Pablo Picasso -
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
Pablo Picasso
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Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).
Pablo Picasso -
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
Pablo Picasso -
I'm not a developer; I am.
Pablo Picasso -
They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
Pablo Picasso