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Pablo Picasso Inspirational Quotes (244)

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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
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Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature she imposes on him character and appearance.
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People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
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If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.
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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
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Art is lies that tell the truth.
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
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There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes
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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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To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
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I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
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What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.
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As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
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Good designers copy great designers steal.
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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
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Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.
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The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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