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“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
― Pablo Picasso

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”
― Pablo Picasso

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
― Pablo Picasso

“There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
― Pablo Picasso

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
― Pablo Picasso

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
― Pablo Picasso

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
― Pablo Picasso

“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.”
― Pablo Picasso

“If I don't have red, I use blue.”
― 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

“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
― Pablo Picasso

“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. ”
― Pablo Picasso

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ”
― Pablo Picasso

“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”
― Pablo Picasso

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform”
― Norman Mac Donald