Pablo Picasso Quotes
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It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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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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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.
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
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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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The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
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To find is the thing.
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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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Everything we can dream can be real.
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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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The path to youth takes a lifetime.
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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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Don't waste your youth growing up.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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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.
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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Why assume that to look is to see?
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It took me a lifetime.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
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From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
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Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.