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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
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The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.
Pablo Picasso
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It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
Pablo Picasso -
The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
Pablo Picasso -
I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.
Pablo Picasso -
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
Pablo Picasso -
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.
Pablo Picasso -
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
Pablo Picasso
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In the end there is only Matisse.
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All Children are Artists.
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As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
Pablo Picasso -
Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
Pablo Picasso -
Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
Pablo Picasso -
If you don't know what color to take, take black.
Pablo Picasso
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You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
Pablo Picasso -
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
Pablo Picasso -
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso -
It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.
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Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.
Pablo Picasso
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When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
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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.
Pablo Picasso -
Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
Pablo Picasso -
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.
Pablo Picasso