Pablo Picasso Quotes
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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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.
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There are more copies than originals among people.
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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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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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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.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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When I don't have red, I use blue.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.
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Sex and art are the same thing.
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They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
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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.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.