Pablo Picasso Quotes
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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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There are more copies than originals among people.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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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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In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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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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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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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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When I don't have red, I use blue.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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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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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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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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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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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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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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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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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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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.