Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 11

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• Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

  Pablo Picasso

  Being Alone, Creativity, Solitude

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

  Pablo Picasso

  Past, Thinking, Ideas

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• It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Passion, Fate, Justice

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Long, Movement

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• A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Artist, Hands

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• Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Expression, Ideas, Progress

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• Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Reality, Ideas

  "Conversation avec Picasso". Interview with Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, Volume X, No. 7-10 (pp. 173-178), 1935; later quoted in Richard Friedenthal "Letters of the Great Artists From Blake to Pollock" translated by Daphne Woodward (pp. 256-257), 1963.

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Color, Ideas

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• It took me a lifetime.

  Pablo Picasso

  Lifetime

  Pablo Picasso, Markus Müller, Jean-Louis Andral, Bernard Ruiz Picasso, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster (2002). “Pablo Picasso: the time with Francoise Gilot”, Kerber Verlag

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• Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Age, Today

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• If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I want to know one thing, what is color?

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Want, Knows

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• No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

  Pablo Picasso

  War, Enemy, Defense

  Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé, Pablo Picasso (1983). “Pablo Picasso”, Harry N. Abrams

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• I do not evolve, I am.

  Pablo Picasso

  Evolve

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• To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Difficult, Hated

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Stronger, Bidding

  Jean Louis Ferrier, Pablo Picasso (1996). “Picasso”, Vilo International

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• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Ideas

  Attributed in "Artists and Aesthetics in Spain" by Ann Livermore, (p. 154), 1988.

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• Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

  Pablo Picasso

  Voice, Style, Attention

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• When you're really young, you're young for life.

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  Mastery, Young

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• You can't run a without taking risks.

  Pablo Picasso

  Running, Business, Risk

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• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creative, Stealing

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• It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Ideas, Emotion

  "Futurism". Book edited by Didier Ottinger, Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, p. 313, 2008.

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• Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

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  Art, Miracle, Doe

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• What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.

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  Always Trying, People, Personality

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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