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Pablo Picasso Inspirational Quotes (244)

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You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.
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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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Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is touched by God.
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I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like but that particular green, never.
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We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.
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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
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When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.
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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
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An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.
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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
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The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.
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Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.
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For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
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To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
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They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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