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Pablo Picasso Inspirational Quotes (244)

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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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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
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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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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
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I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
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The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.
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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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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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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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Action is the foundation of all success.
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The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
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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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Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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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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Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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To model an object is to possess it.
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