Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 5

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• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  Pablo Picasso

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Peace

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• Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

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  Mean, Progress, Use

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• If you don't know what color to take, take black.

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  Color, Black, Knows

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

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• I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

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  Done, Want, Emotion

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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  Art, Business, Museums

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

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• Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

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  War, Done, Painting

  Pablo Picasso, Roland Penrose (Sir.) (1960). “Picasso”

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• When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

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  Trying

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• When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

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  Tired, Relax, Doing Nothing

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• To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

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  Art, Forget, Works Of Art

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• If you can imagine it...it is real

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  Real, Imagine, Ifs

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• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

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  Children, Artist, Outcomes

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• The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

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  Intelligent, Acting, Plot

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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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  Success, Dangerous, Copies

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

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• If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

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  Air, Together, Stories

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• I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

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  Six Months, Done, Painting

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• Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

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  Reality, Darkness, Found

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• We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

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  Class Distinction, Picks

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• People who read are people who dream.

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  Dream, People

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• If I don't have red, I use blue.

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  Inspirational, Life, Blue

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• For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

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  Discipline, Long, Form

  Attributed in "Picasso on Art" edited by Dore Ashton, 1988.

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

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  Song, Art, People

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

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• To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

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  Ideas, Drawing, Pages

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• You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

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  Work, Mean, Two

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• I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.

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  Running, Real, Cat

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• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

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  Lying, Believe, Deceit

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

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