Pablo Picasso Quotes
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If you can imagine it...it is real.
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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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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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Lord, protect me from what I want!
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The path to youth takes a lifetime.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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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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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
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It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
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Why assume that to look is to see?
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No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.
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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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Don't waste your youth growing up.
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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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It took me a lifetime.
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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.
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My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.
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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.