Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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.
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Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
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Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.
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In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.
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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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All things considered, there is only Matisse.
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Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
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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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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
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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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There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.
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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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Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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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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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
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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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When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.
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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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Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
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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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I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
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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.