Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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Don't waste your youth growing up.
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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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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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What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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Everything we can dream can be real.
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Action is the fundamental key to success.
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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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The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
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Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
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The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
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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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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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I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
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When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
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I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
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Computers are stupid.
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If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.
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I paint what I think, not what I see.
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We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.
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Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.
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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.