Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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.
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I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
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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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I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
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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.
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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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Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
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When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
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"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.
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Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.
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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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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.
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I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
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The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
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Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
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Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
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It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.
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I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
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The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.
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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.