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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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Pablo Picasso
Age: 91 †
Born: 1881
Born: October 25
Died: 1973
Died: April 8
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I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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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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Art is not truth art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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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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To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.
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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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We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
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Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
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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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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
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