Pablo Picasso Quotes
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They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
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I'm not a developer; I am.
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Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
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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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...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 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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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 you can imagine it...it is real.
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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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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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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
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When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
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It took me a lifetime.
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We have learned nothing.
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Why assume that to look is to see?
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I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
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The path to youth takes a lifetime.
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If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
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The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
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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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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.