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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.

Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso
Age: 91 †
Born: 1881
Born: October 25
Died: 1973
Died: April 8
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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
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Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.
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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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The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
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Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
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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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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
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The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
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