Pablo Picasso Quotes
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When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.
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You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
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Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.
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If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.
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It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
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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.
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All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
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When there's anything to steal, I steal
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Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
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Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
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When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
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In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture - then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else
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Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.
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Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
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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.
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
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To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
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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.
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Mathematics, trigonometry, chemistry, psychoanalysis, music, and what not have been related to cubism to give it an easier interpretation. All this has been pure literature, not to say nonsense, which brought bad results, blinding people with theories. Cubism has kept itself within the limits and limitations of painting, never pretending to go beyond it.
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I do not see why so much importance should be attached to the idea of 'research' in painting.
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Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.