Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
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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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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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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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Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
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To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
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Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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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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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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I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
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To model an object is to possess it.
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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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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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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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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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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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It took me a lifetime.