Pablo Picasso Quotes
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The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
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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.
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I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.
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When there's anything to steal, I steal
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To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
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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.
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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] 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 work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.
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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
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The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
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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.
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It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
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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.
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Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
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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.
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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.
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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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If you don't know what color to take, take black.
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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?