Pablo Picasso Quotes
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We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
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In art, practice always comes before theory.
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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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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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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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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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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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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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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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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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All Children are Artists.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.