Pablo Picasso quote: "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and u...
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy...
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to k...
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
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Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no rea...
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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive bey...
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love th...
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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Why does the bad piano player refuse to play when you offer him $100 to play? The neighbour already...
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Store sign: Why go somewhere else and waste your money? Come here!
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It doesn't matter how low the dollar will go, I will always bend down and pick it up.
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In a room full of art, I'd still stare at you.
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I think I'm starting to have a problem with my vision, ever since I got married I haven't seen any m...
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When I was small I thought money and fame brought all the happiness in the world. Now that I'm grow...
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When someone doesn't like something, it's often because they're not familiar with it, or they're too...
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of...
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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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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Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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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 sug...
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can hav...
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It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of pr...
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All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a mi...
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It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserab...
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If yo...
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The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from th...
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always cl...
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with...
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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
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I do not seek, I find.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by ...
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If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be cons...
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Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the...
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach ...
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such paint...
PABLO PICASSO

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctu...
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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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You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. W...
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Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We ...
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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...
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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Don't waste your youth growing up.
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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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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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Drink to me.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be c...
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A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if...
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Time goes by fast, and people go in and out of your life so quickly, so you should never miss the op...
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the l...
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Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of...
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the ea...
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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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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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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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Youth has no age.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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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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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
PABLO PICASSO

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces ...
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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive elimin...
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real...
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tel...
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
PABLO PICASSO

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
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It takes a very long time to become young.
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping st...
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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 ...
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you w...
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
PABLO PICASSO

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of...
PABLO PICASSO

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who crea...
PABLO PICASSO

Good taste is the enemy of creativity
PABLO PICASSO

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions....
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is ...
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Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
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I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write...
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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that...
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it ...
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We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
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The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up tr...
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the ea...
PABLO PICASSO

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
PABLO PICASSO

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
PABLO PICASSO

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
PABLO PICASSO

God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but k...
PABLO PICASSO

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
PABLO PICASSO

Taste is the enemy of creativeness
PABLO PICASSO

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputa...
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such paint...
PABLO PICASSO

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you becom...
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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get toget...
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that ...
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When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, ...
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
PABLO PICASSO

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will ...
PABLO PICASSO

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
PABLO PICASSO

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
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I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand my explanation, but you will not understan...
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I should like to live like a poor man, with a great deal of money
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We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the...
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Now there is fame! Of all / hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public / fame is by far the w...
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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing
PABLO PICASSO

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too
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I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money
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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it'...
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When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.
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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
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On met longtemps à devenir jeune.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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There are painters that can change the sun into a yellow blot, but there are others, that due to the...
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We don't grow older, we grow riper
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Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
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As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is d...
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
PABLO PICASSO

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Lord, protect me from what I want!
PABLO PICASSO

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth
PABLO PICASSO

Drink to me
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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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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite d...
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When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. A...
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I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.
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One starts to get young at sixty, and then it's too late
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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 ...
PABLO PICASSO

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you beco...
PABLO PICASSO

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
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If i wanted to become a monk, I would have ultimately become the Bishop.If i wanted to become a sold...
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely in...
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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child
PABLO PICASSO

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such paint...
PABLO PICASSO

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats
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Basically the French are all peasants.
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. A...
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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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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is ...
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To draw, you must close your eyes and sing
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It took me a lifetime.
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I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso,
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My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life.
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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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Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO

It takes a long time to grow young.
PABLO PICASSO

Love is the greatest refreshment in life
PABLO PICASSO

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

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