Latest Pablo Picasso Quotes from Interviews

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• The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

  Pablo Picasso

  Bones, Fingerprints, Amused

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• Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Clay, Mold, Looks

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• I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dog, Real, Passion

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• I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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• It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .

  Pablo Picasso

  Insane, Pockets, Coins

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• What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Primitive Man, Ivory

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• I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

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• When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dust, Color, Missing

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• I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dust, Allies, Layers

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• The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fall, Past, Dust

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• Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.

  Pablo Picasso

  Race, Goes On, May

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• Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Cities, People

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• How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.

  Pablo Picasso

  Block, Men, Monsters

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• It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

  Pablo Picasso

  Strange, Marble, Statues

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• I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

  Pablo Picasso

  Wall, Block, Roots

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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

• Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

  Pablo Picasso

  Names, Calling, Juan

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• My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.

  Pablo Picasso

  Names, Spain, Barcelona

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• "Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Italian, Names, Bears

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• If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

  Pablo Picasso

  Signatures, Canvas, Forgery

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• We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Signatures, Want, Painting

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• I hate it when people pilfer my things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Hate, People, I Hate

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• In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!

  Pablo Picasso

  Names, Signatures, Stories

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• People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

  Pablo Picasso

  People, Asking, Ridiculous

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• It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.

  Pablo Picasso

  Letting Go, Ideas, Important