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Pablo Picasso Inspirational Quotes (244)

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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
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Why assume that to look is to see?
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I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
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Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.
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In art, practice always comes before theory.
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Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.
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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
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A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
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My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than Ruiz. And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
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I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
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I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.
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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.
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If I don't have red, I use blue.
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The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
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You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
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Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
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Art is not truth art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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