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Pablo Picasso Inspirational Quotes (244)

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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.
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If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.
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There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
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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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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
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If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.
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Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
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When I haven't any blue I use red.
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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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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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In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.
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Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.
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Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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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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