Pablo Picasso Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
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  Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Art, Mean, Blow

• 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

  Happiness, Hate, Artist

• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Technology

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

• You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Past, Discovery, Giving

• Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Answers, Useless

• Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Trouble, Difficulty

• If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Real, Giving, Would Be

• As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Giving, Use

• Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

  Pablo Picasso

  War, Cutting, Hands

• You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.

  Pablo Picasso

  Moon, Sea, Giving

  Denis Thomas, Pablo Picasso (1975). “Picasso and his art”

• The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Judging, Advice

  Pablo Picasso (1972*). “Picasso: 90 Drawings and Works in Colour”

• If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Giving, Guernica

  "The Sociology of Architecture: Constructing Identities" by Paul Jones, (p. 47), 2011.

• You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye, Men, Hands

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