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The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.
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Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
Pablo Picasso
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The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.
Pablo Picasso -
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso -
There are more copies than originals among people.
Pablo Picasso -
When I don't have red, I use blue.
Pablo Picasso -
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso -
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Pablo Picasso
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso -
This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.
Pablo Picasso -
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso -
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso -
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso -
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms, well then think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affects us more or less intensely. Boisgeloup, winter 1934.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso -
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso -
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
Pablo Picasso -
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo Picasso
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You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.
Pablo Picasso -
When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.
Pablo Picasso -
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso -
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Pablo Picasso