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For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

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Pablo Picasso
Age: 91 †
Born: 1881
Born: October 25
Died: 1973
Died: April 8
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Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
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Action is the foundation of all success.
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A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
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When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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There's nothing more difficult than a line.
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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
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We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
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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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Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
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Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
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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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For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
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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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