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There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
Pablo Picasso
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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
Pablo Picasso -
When I haven't any blue I use red.
Pablo Picasso -
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Pablo Picasso -
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
Pablo Picasso -
Almost every evening in their common early-Cubist years, in Paris, either I went to Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's paintings. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was. a remark of Picasso to Françoise Gilot, December 1908
Pablo Picasso -
Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
Pablo Picasso
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For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.
Pablo Picasso -
A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.
Pablo Picasso -
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
Pablo Picasso -
Good designers copy; great designers steal.
Pablo Picasso -
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso -
Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.
Pablo Picasso
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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! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.
Pablo Picasso -
Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.
Pablo Picasso -
If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.
Pablo Picasso -
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
Pablo Picasso -
I don't know where he Marc Chagall gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.
Pablo Picasso -
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Pablo Picasso
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I do not see why so much importance should be attached to the idea of 'research' in painting.
Pablo Picasso -
Picasso was telling Madame C- that he could paint anywhere and anyhow. That nothing in the world could stop him. That even if he were imprisoned, he would draw on the dust-covered prison walls and on the floor, with his fingers dripped in his own spit. He said he could paint then and there if he wanted to, or if he felt like it.
Pablo Picasso -
When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
Pablo Picasso -
Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
Pablo Picasso