Pablo Picasso Quotes - Page 17

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• Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  Pablo Picasso

  Drawing, Lasts, Firsts

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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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• I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Numbers, Style

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

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• There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Art

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• There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Trying, Want

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• Good designers copy; great designers steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Design, Stealing, Copies

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• When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eggs, Portraits, Portraiture

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• We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Running, Gone, Sand

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• The more technique there is, the less there is

  Pablo Picasso

  Technique

  Pablo Picasso, Daniel Robbins (1979). “Picasso's Vollard Suite”

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• I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

  Pablo Picasso

  Order, Canvas, Apparitions

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• I'm not a developer; I am.

  Pablo Picasso

  Developers

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• They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Emerald Green, Emeralds

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• Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.

  Pablo Picasso

  Green, Impossible, Painting

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• One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

  Pablo Picasso

  Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Age

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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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• What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

  Pablo Picasso

  Understanding, Wish, Poor

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• When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

  Pablo Picasso

  People, Ships, Shipwreck

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• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Two, Next

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• Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Book, Reading

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• It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Apollo, Care

  The New York Times, July 21, 1969.

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• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Maps, Lines

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso (2010). “The Picasso Book”, Tate

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• My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Struggle, Guernica

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso (2010). “The Picasso Book”, Tate

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• I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.

  Pablo Picasso

  Tired, Trying, Lasts

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• They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye, Artist, Order

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso, Deborah Povey (1995). “A Picasso bestiary”, Academy Editions Ltd

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• The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Important, Legends

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