Pablo Picasso Quotes
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If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
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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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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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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
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If you can imagine it...it is 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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Everything we can dream can be real.
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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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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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To model an object is to possess it.
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To find is the thing.
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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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The path to youth takes a lifetime.
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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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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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Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
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I do not evolve, I am.
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Computers are stupid.
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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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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
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Why assume that to look is to see?