quotes by Pablo Picasso
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
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"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. "
— Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972)
— Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972)
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
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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"
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
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"“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.""
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
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"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
""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.""
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
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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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— Pablo Picasso
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— Pablo Picasso
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"If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
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— Pablo Picasso
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— Pablo Picasso
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vision
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"We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
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— Pablo Picasso
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— Pablo Picasso
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
"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."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
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technology
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"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica)."
— Pablo Picasso
(about Guernica)."
— Pablo Picasso
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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— Pablo Picasso
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— Pablo Picasso
"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
"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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— Pablo Picasso
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— Pablo Picasso
"The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is. "
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
"My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso."
— Pablo Picasso
— Pablo Picasso
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"The difference between objective and subjective work is one of external form merely. It is accidental, not essential. All artistic creation is absolutely subjective. The very landscape that Corot looked at was, as he said himself, but a mood of his own mind; and those great figures of Greek or English drama that seem to us to possess an actual existence of their own, apart from the poets who shaped and fashioned them, are, in their ultimate analysis, simply the poets themselves, not as they thought they were, but as they thought they were not; and by such thinking came in strange manner, though but for a moment, really so to be. (...) Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Samuel Beckett
c. Pablo Picasso
d. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The difference between objective and subjective work is one of external form merely. It is accidental, not essential. All artistic creation is absolutely subjective. The very landscape that Corot looked at was, as he said himself, but a mood of his own mind; and those great figures of Greek or English drama that seem to us to possess an actual existence of their own, apart from the poets who shaped and fashioned them, are, in their ultimate analysis, simply the poets themselves, not as they thought they were, but as they thought they were not; and by such thinking came in strange manner, though but for a moment, really so to be. (...) Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Samuel Beckett
c. Pablo Picasso
d. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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