Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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All things considered, there is only Matisse.
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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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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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There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.
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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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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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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
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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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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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Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
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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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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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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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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
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I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
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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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A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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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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Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.