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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish Artist
Born: Oct 25, 1881
Died: Apr 8, 1973
Art Life More Only Painting You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Claude Monet Edvard Munch Jean-Michel Basquiat Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Salvador Dali Vincent Van Gogh
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso
Success Dangerous Others Oneself More Leads Than Begins Success Is Copy
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso
Positive Genius Negative Value Every Price Leads Terms Hiroshima Einstein
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Pablo Picasso
Abstract Art Art You Reality Remove Must Something Abstract Traces Always Afterwards Start
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso
Law He Inexorable Who Thinks
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Pablo Picasso
Best Painting Make Comment Sculpture Painter
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. Pablo Picasso
Art Business People Make Mostly Who
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso
Truth Art Lie Makes Realize Us
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. Pablo Picasso
Work Soul Grace Picture Final Give Finish Through Coup Well Nonsense Blow Means Rid Painter
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. Pablo Picasso
Eyes Our Out Only Could Brain Use Pull
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. Pablo Picasso
Day Great Genius Will Become Everything Some He Taken Disappears Trace Without Boy Real Up Begin Child Precocious May Childhood Happen Again Might Then Painter Even Zero Grows
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. Pablo Picasso
History Accidents Believe Only Encounters
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. Pablo Picasso
You Worry About More Less Technique
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. Pablo Picasso
Truth Art Lie Given Know Makes Understand Least Realize Us
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? Pablo Picasso
Dangerous Understanding More Than Anything Sympathetic
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. Pablo Picasso
Truth You Hundred Only Were Same Theme Paint
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. Pablo Picasso
Work Man Invented Clock Alarm Necessity
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? Pablo Picasso
Face Inside Behind Paint
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. Pablo Picasso
Me Give Give Me Fill Museum
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. Pablo Picasso
You Pure Following Finishes Through Volume Clear Likewise Inevitably Arrive Reverse Egg Same Form Process Successive Search Portrait Start Starting
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. Pablo Picasso
Sugar Bath Dissolve Everything Miracle Like Does Lump
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. Pablo Picasso
Truth Art Lie Enables Realize Us
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. Pablo Picasso
Life Work Seduction Ultimate Your
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. Pablo Picasso
People Painting Think Detail Particular Does Opposite Just Whole Peach
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. Pablo Picasso
You Believe Say Tell Lies Tempt Particularly Answer Always Questions
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
Rest Face Own Everyone Way Photo Inside Simply Particular Look Particular Way Himself His Exist Front Behind Which Really Painted Painter
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. Pablo Picasso
Eyes Better Ought Out Put Sing Order Painters
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