Pablo Picasso Quotes
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If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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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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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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I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.
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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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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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I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.
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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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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
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I'm not a developer; I am.
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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
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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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All art is subversive.
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Lord, protect me from what I want!
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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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I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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To model an object is to possess it.
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Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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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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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
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If you can imagine it...it is real.