Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
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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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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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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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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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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
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It took me a lifetime.
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The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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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 path to youth takes a lifetime.
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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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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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Lord, protect me from what I want!
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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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If you can imagine it...it is real.
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
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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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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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Why assume that to look is to see?
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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.