Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Why assume that to look is to see?
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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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All art is subversive.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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Art is a leap into the dark.
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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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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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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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
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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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To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
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Lord, protect me from what I want!
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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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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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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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Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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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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If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
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The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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If you can imagine it...it is real.
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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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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.