Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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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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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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It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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All art is subversive.
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
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Art is a leap into the dark.
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I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
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To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
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As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
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I have had no true friends, only lovers.
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If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
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Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
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An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."
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To model an object is to possess it.
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I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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Lord, protect me from what I want!