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I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
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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
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I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
Pablo Picasso -
How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
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 -
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.
Pablo Picasso
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You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.
Pablo Picasso -
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
Pablo Picasso -
To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
Pablo Picasso -
A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
Pablo Picasso -
"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.
Pablo Picasso -
I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
Pablo Picasso
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Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.
Pablo Picasso -
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
Pablo Picasso -
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
Pablo Picasso -
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
Pablo Picasso -
...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
Pablo Picasso -
Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
Pablo Picasso
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What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.
Pablo Picasso -
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Pablo Picasso -
He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.
Pablo Picasso -
If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.
Pablo Picasso