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Pablo Picasso Quotes

Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Pablo Picasso Quotes

Youth has no age.
- Pablo Picasso Quotes

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
- Pablo Picasso Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- Pablo Picasso Quotes

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
- Pablo Picasso Quotes

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
- Pablo Picasso Quotes

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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I do not seek. I find.
- Pablo Picasso Quotes

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
- Pablo Picasso Quotes

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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