Pablo Picasso

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Biography : Spanish painter and sculptor.
Born: 1881 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Spain
Spain

Spain

Pablo Picasso - Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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I do not seek, I find.
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Youth has no age.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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A picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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