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Don't waste your youth growing up.
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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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I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
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I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
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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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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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I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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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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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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When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
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The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
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I paint what I think, not what I see.
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Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.
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What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.
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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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Action is the fundamental key to success.
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If I don't have red, I use blue.
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You don't make art, you find it.
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The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.