Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 13

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• Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Liberty, Anecdotes

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• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creative, Stealing

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• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Insecurity

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• I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Trying, Looks

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• I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Feelings, Vision, Purpose

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

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

  Pablo Picasso

  People, Asking, Ridiculous

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

  Pablo Picasso

  Children, Genius, Paint

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• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Color, Design

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

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• But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Vanity, Greed

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• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Color

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• Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, War, Enemy

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• An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Reality, Looks

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• In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  Pablo Picasso

  Drawing, Sketching, Firsts

  "Picasso and Compan". Book by Gyula Brassaï, 1966.

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• Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

  Pablo Picasso

  Painting

  Pablo Picasso (2004). “Pablo Picasso und Marie-Thérèse Walter: zwischen Klassizismus und Surrealismus”

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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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• For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

  Pablo Picasso

  Wall, Cells, Drawing

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• Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Deception, Training, Shadow

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• The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Matter, Interest, Sentiments

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• The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

  Pablo Picasso

  Lying, Artist, Truthfulness

  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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• As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

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  Artist, Needs, Done

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• The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.

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  People, Sculpture, Athens

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• We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, War, Thinking

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• Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

  Pablo Picasso

  Doctors, Two, Frustrated

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• I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.

  Pablo Picasso

  Composition

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• The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.

  Pablo Picasso

  Curves, People, Secret

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