Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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...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 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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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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If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
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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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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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Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
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For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
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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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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
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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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Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.
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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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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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If I don't have red, I use blue.
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We have learned nothing.
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.
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Lord, protect me from what I want!
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Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).