Pablo Picasso
Quotations
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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.” -Pablo Picasso
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“There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.” -Pablo Picasso
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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.” -Pablo Picasso
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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.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.” -Pablo Picasso
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“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” -Pablo Picasso
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“My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” -Pablo Picasso
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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.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” -Pablo Picasso
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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.” -Pablo Picasso
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“I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.” -Pablo Picasso
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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.” -Pablo Picasso
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“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.” -Pablo Picasso
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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.” -Pablo Picasso
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“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” -Pablo Picasso
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“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.” -Pablo Picasso
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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.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.” -Pablo Picasso
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