Pablo Picasso Quotes
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We have learned nothing.
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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
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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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As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
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They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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I'm not a developer; I am.
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To model an object is to possess it.
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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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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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Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
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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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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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For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart.
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I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
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It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
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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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It took me a lifetime.
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The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
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I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?