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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.
Pablo Picasso -
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
Pablo Picasso
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To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
Pablo Picasso -
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
Pablo Picasso -
So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
Pablo Picasso -
To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
Pablo Picasso
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The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
Pablo Picasso -
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
Pablo Picasso
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It took me a lifetime.
Pablo Picasso -
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso -
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
Pablo Picasso -
When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
Pablo Picasso -
It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
Pablo Picasso -
The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
Pablo Picasso