Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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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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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
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In art, practice always comes before theory.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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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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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
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But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.
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The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
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Sex and art are the same thing.
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Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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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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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit!
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If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?