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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. Boisgeloup, winter 1934.
Pablo Picasso
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When there's anything to steal, I steal
Pablo Picasso -
The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
Pablo Picasso -
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
Pablo Picasso -
I don't seek, I find.
Pablo Picasso -
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.
Pablo Picasso -
It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.
Pablo Picasso
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It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
Pablo Picasso -
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
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And from the point of view of art there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. That those lies are necessary to our mental selves is beyond any doubt, as it is through them that we form our aesthetic point of view of life. (Paris 1923)
Pablo Picasso -
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
Pablo Picasso
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When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.
Pablo Picasso -
The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.
Pablo Picasso -
You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.
Pablo Picasso -
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
Pablo Picasso -
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
Pablo Picasso -
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
Pablo Picasso
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Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.
Pablo Picasso -
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.
Pablo Picasso -
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.
Pablo Picasso -
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.
Pablo Picasso