Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.
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It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .
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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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Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).
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All art is subversive.
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.
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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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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
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To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
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If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
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...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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I have had no true friends, only lovers.
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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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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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Lord, protect me from what I want!
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The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
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It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
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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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I'm not a developer; I am.
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An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.