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What Do You Think An Artist Is? An Imbecile Who Has Only His Eyes If He's A Painter, Or Ears If He's A Musician, Or A Lyre At Every Level Of His Heart If He's A Poet, Or Even, If He's A Boxer, Just His Muscles? On The Contrary, He's At The Same Time A Political Being, Constantly Alive To Heart-rending, Burning, Or Happy Events In The World.

-Pablo Picasso

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What Do You Think An Artist Is? An Imbecile Who Has Only His Eyes If He's A Painter, Or Ears If He's A Musician, Or A Lyre At Every Level Of His Heart If He's A Poet, Or Even, If He's A Boxer, Just His Muscles? On The Contrary, He's At The Same Time A Political Being, Constantly Alive To Heart-rending, Burning, Or Happy Events In The World.

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Paintings Are But Research And Experiment. I Never Do A Painting As A Work Of Art. All Of Them Are Researches. I Search Constantly And There Is A Logical Sequence In All This Research.

All Human Beings Are Born With The Same Creative Potential. Most People Squander Theirs Away On A Million Superfluous Things. I Expend Mine On One Thing And One Thing Only: My Art.

Go And Do The Things You Can't. That Is How You Get To Do Them.

To Model An Object Is To Possess It.

You Know, It's Just Like Being A Peddler. You Want Two Breasts? Well, Here You Are -- Two Breasts. We Must See To It That The Man Looking At The Picture Has At Hand Everything He Needs To Paint A Nude. If You Really Give Him Everything He Needs -- And The Best -- He'll Put Everything Where It Belongs, With His Own Eyes. Each Person Will Make For Himself The Kind Of Nude He Wants, With The Nude That I Will Have Made For Him.

Art Is Lies That Tell The Truth.

Telling The Truth

To Blossom Forth, A Work Of Art Must Ignore Or Rather Forget All The Rules.

The Academic Teaching On Beauty Is False. We Have Been Misled, But So Completely Misled That We Can No Longer Find So Much As A Shadow Of A Truth Again. The Beauties Of The Parthenon, The Venuses, The Nymphs, The Narcisusses, Are So May Lies. Art Is Not The Application Of A Canon Of Beauty, But What The Instinct And The Brain Can Conceive Independently Of That Canon.

Painting Isn't Made For The Decoration Of Apartments; It Is A Weapon To Be Used Offensively And Defensively Against The Enemy.

My Whole Life Has Been Nothing More Than A Continuous Struggle Against Reaction And The Death Of Art.

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.

Through Art We Express Our Conception Of What Nature Is Not.

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.

I'd Like To Live Like A Poor Man With A Lot Of Money.

I Don't Say Everything, But I Paint Everything.

The Purpose Of Art Is To Create Enthusiasm.

Don't Waste Your Youth Growing Up.

There Is Only One Way To See Things, Until Someone Shows Us How To Look At Them With Different Eyes

It Takes A Long Time To Become Young.

The Artist Spends The First Part Of His Life With The Dead, The Second With The Living, And The Third With Himself.

The People No Longer Seek Consolation In Art. But The Refined People, The Rich, The Idlers Seek The New, The Extraordinary, The Extravagant, The Scandalous.

Beauty? To Me It Is A Word Without Sense Because I Do Not Know Where Its Meaning Comes From Nor Where It Leads To.

Beautiful Women

It Is My Misfortune - And Probably My Delight - To Use Things As My Passions Tell Me. What A Miserable Fate For A Painter Who Adores Blondes To Have To Stop Himself Putting Them Into A Picture Because They Don't Go With The Basket Of Fruit! . . . I Put All The Things I Like Into My Pictures. The Things - So Much The Worse For Them. They Just Have To Put Up With It.

To Draw You Must Close Your Eyes And Sing.

The Important Thing Is To Create. Nothing Else Matters; Creation Is All.

I Paint The Way Some People Write An Autobiography. The Paintings, Finished Or Not, Are The Pages From My Diary.

A Painter Is A Man Who Paints What He Sells; An Artist, On The Other Hand, Is A Man Who Sells What He Paints.

If You're Stuck In A Painting, Then Stop And Draw Something Else. Draw A Flower And Put Your Love Into That Flower. Then Your Powers Will Come Back Again.

What One Does Is What Counts. Not What One Had The Intention Of Doing.

One Never Knows What One Is Going To Do. One Starts A Painting And Then It Becomes Something Quite Different.

The Revolutionary Artist Does Not Only Focus On The Negative Aspects Of Capitalist Lives, But Also Creates Visions Of A Revolutionary Future.

That Inspiration Comes, Does Not Depend On Me. The Only Thing I Can Do Is Make Sure It Catches Me Working.

The Fact That For A Long Time Cubism Has Not Been Understood And That Even Today There Are People Who Cannot See Anything In It Means Nothing. I Do Not Read English, An English Book Is A Blank Book To Me. This Does Not Mean That The English Language Does Not Exist. Why Should I Blame Anyone But Myself If I Cannot Understand What I Know Nothing About?" -pablo Picasso.

Whatever The Source Of Emotion That Drives Me To Create, I Want To Give It A Form Which Has Some Connection With The Visible World, Even If It Is Only To Wage War On That World....i Want My Paintings To Be Able To Defend Themselves To Resist The Invader, Just As Though There Were Razor Blades On All Surfaces So No One Could Touch Them Without Cutting His Hands.

Art Is Not Truth; Art Is The Lie Which Makes Us See The Truth.

Why Assume That To Look Is To See?

For Those Who Know How To Read, I Have Painted My Autobiography

It Isn't Up To The Painter To Define The Symbols. Otherwise It Would Be Better If He Wrote Them Out In So Many Words! The Public Who Look At The Picture Must Interpret The Symbols As They Understand Them.

How Often Have I Found That Wanting To Use Blue, I Didn't Have It So I Used A Red Instead Of The Blue.

Good Designers Copy; Great Designers Steal.

The Trouble Is, We've Been Taught What To See And How To Render What We See. If Only We Could Be In The Position Of Those Men Who Did Those Wonderful Drawings In Lascaux And Altimira!

We Can See The Light But We Are Still Inside The Tunnel, ... We Have Not Been Able To Get To All The Communities.

It Seems Strange To Me That Someone Thought Of Making Marble Statues.

A Picture Lives By Its Legend - Not By Anything Else.

The Older You Get The Stronger The Wind Gets - And It's Always In Your Face.

I Do Not Evolve, I Am.

Painting Is Just Another Way Of Keeping A Diary.

Every Act Of Creation Is First An Act Of Destruction.

If There Were Only One Truth, You Couldn't Paint A Hundred Canvases On The Same Theme.

There's No Such Thing As A Bad Picasso, But Some Are Less Good Than Others.

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.

I Work With Few Colors, What Creates The Illusion Of Quantity Is That They Fell In The Right Place.

I Am A Communist And My Painting Is A Communist Painting. But If I Were A Shoemaker, Royalist Or Communist Or Anything Else, I Would Not Necessarily Hammer My Shoes In Any Special Way To Show My Politics.

It's Always Necessary To Seek For Perfection. Obviously, For Us, This Word No Longer Has The Same Meaning. To Me, It Means: From One Canvas To The Next, Always Go Further, Further.

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal.

Is There Anything More Dangerous Than Sympathetic Understanding?

This Idea Of Art For Art's Sake Is A Hoax.

I Paint Objects As I Think Them, Not As I See Them.

Painting Isn't An Aesthetic Operation; It's A Form Of Magic Designed As Mediator Between This Strange Hostile World And Us.

If You Give A Meaning To Certain Things In My Paintings It May Be Very True, But It Is Not My Idea To Give This Meaning. What Ideas And Conclusions You Have Got I Obtained Too, But Instinctively, Unconsciously. I Make The Painting For The Painting. I Paint The Objects For What They Are.

The Urge To Destroy Is Also A Creative Urge.

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

Art Is Not The Application Of A Canon Of Beauty But What The Instinct And The Brain Can Conceive Beyond Any Canon. When We Love A Woman We Don't Start Measuring Her Limbs.

The More Technique You Have, The Less You Have To Worry About It. The More Technique There Is, The Less There Is.

To Arrive At Abstraction, It Is Always Necessary To Begin With A Concrete Reality.

Manifesting Takes Place From Spirit. It Doesn't Take Place From Form, From The Physical World. You've Got To Know That What You Want To Manifest Will Occur.

When You Are Young And Without Success, You Have Only A Few Friends. Then, Later On, When You Are Rich And Famous, You Still Have A Few... If You Are Lucky.

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Painting Is A Blind Man's Profession. He Paints Not What He Sees, But What He Feels, What He Tells Himself About What He Has Seen.

If I Paint A Wild Horse, You Might Not See The Horse... But Surely You Will See The Wildness!

If I Knew What The Meaning Of Art Was, I Wouldn't Tell You.

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One Does A Whole Painting For One Peach And People Think Just The Opposite - That Particular Peach Is But A Detail.

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Those Trying To Explain Pictures Are As A Rule Completely Mistaken.

The Earth Doesn't Have A Housekeeper To Do The Dusting.

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I Simply Painted Images Of What Was Before My Eyes; It Is For Others To Find Hidden Meaning In Them.

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Those Who Attempts To Explain A Picture Are On The Wrong Track Most Of The Time.

People Don't Realize What They Have When They Own A Picture By Me. Each Picture Is A Phial With My Blood. That Is What Has Gone Into It.

Action Is The Fundamental Key To Success.

I'm Not A Developer; I Am.

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Drawing Is A Kind Of Hypnotism: One Looks In Such A Way At The Model, That He Comes And Takes A Seat On The Paper.

Nothing Can Be Done Without Solitude. I've Created My Own Solitude Which Nobody Suspects

We Have Learned Nothing.

All Art Is Subversive.

Everyone Wants To Understand Art. Why Not Try To Understand The Song Of A Bird? Why Does One Love The Night, Flowers, Everything Around One, Without Trying To Understand Them? But In The Case Of A Painting People Have To Understand. If Only They Would Realize Above All That An Artist Works Of Necessity, That He Himself Is Only A Trifling Bit Of The World, And That No More Importance Should Be Attached To Him Than To Plenty Of Other Things Which Please Us In The World, Though We Can't Explain Them. People Who Try To Explain Pictures Are Usually Barking Up The Wrong Tree.

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.

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.

I'm Always Doing Things I Can't Do. That's How I Get To Do Them.

Without Great Solitude No Serious Work Is Possible.

You Mustn't Always Believe What I Say. Questions Tempt You To Tell Lies, Particularly When There Is No Answer.

When One Starts From A Portrait And Seeks By Successive Eliminations To Find Pure Form... One Inevitably Ends Up With An Egg.

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.

People Want Art. And They Are Given It. But The Less Art There Is In Painting The More Painting There Is.

God Is Really Only Another Artist. He Invented The Giraffe, The Elephant And The Cat. He Has No Real Style, He Just Goes On Trying Other Things.

We Have A Lot Of Reasons But Only One Real One.

You Have To Have An Idea Of What You Are Going To Do, But It Should Be A Vague Idea.

When The Individuality Of The Artist Begins To Express Itself, What The Artist Gains In The Way Of Liberty He Loses In The Way Of Order.

Drink To Me. Drink To My Health. You Know I Can't Drink Any More.

People Who Read Are People Who Dream.

It Is Not What An Artist Does That Counts...but What He Is.

Something Sacred, That's It. We Ought To Be Able To Say That Such And Such A Painting Is As It Is, With Its Capacity For Power, Because It Is "touched By God."

Art Is Not Chaste. Those Ill Prepared Should Be Allowed No Contact With Art. Art Is Dangerous. If It Is Chaste, It Is Not Art.

Photographers, Along With Dentists, Are The Two Professions Never Satisfied With What They Do. Every Dentist Would Like To Be A Doctor And Inside Every Photographer Is A Painter Trying To Get Out.

Action Is The Foundation Of All Success.

Reality Is To Be Found In Lightness And Darkness.

The People Who Make Art Their Business Are Mostly Imposters.

We Now Know That Art Is Not The Truth... But Rather A Way Of Approaching The Truth.

[in Developing Your Potential] ... I Don't Develop; I Am

In Art, Practice Always Comes Before Theory.

It Is A Well-known Fact That We See The Faults In Other's Works More Readily Than We Do In Our Own.

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.

Never Permit A Dichotomy To Rule Your Life, A Dichotomy In Which You Hate What You Do So You Can Have Pleasure In Your Spare Time. Look For A Situation In Which Your Work Will Give You As Much Happiness As Your Spare Time.

In Drawing, Nothing Is Better Than The First Attempt.

Style Is Besides The Point. Nobody Would Pay Attention If One Always Said The Same Thing, In The Same Words And The Same Tone Of Voice.

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.

Each Time I Undertake To Paint A Picture I Have A Sensation Of Leaping Into Space. I Never Know Whether I Shall Fall On My Feet. It Is Only Later That I Begin To Estimate More Exactly The The Effect Of My Work.

For Me, There Are Two Kinds Of Women - Goddesses And Doormats.

Today, As You Know, I Am Famous And Very Rich. But When I Am Alone With Myself, I Haven't The 'courage' To Consider Myself An Artist, In The Great And Ancient Sense Of That Word... I Am Only A Public Entertainer, Who Understands His Age.

Lord, Protect Me From What I Want!

Whether He Wants It Or Not, Man Is The Instrument Of Nature; She Imposes On Him Character And Appearance.

Painting Isn't A Question Of Sensibility; It's A Matter Of Seizing The Power, Taking Over From Nature, Not Expecting Her To Supply You With Information And Good Advice.

The Purpose Of Art Is Washing The Dust Of Daily Life Off Our Souls.

When I Was A Kid I Drew Like Michelangelo. It Took Me Years To Learn To Draw Like A Kid.

There Are Only Two Types Of Women - Goddesses And Doormats.

If You Don't Know What Color To Take, Take Black.

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.

To Make Oneself Hated Is More Difficult Than To Make Oneself Loved.

I Want To Know One Thing, What Is Color?

To Copy Others Is Necessary, But To Copy Oneself Is Pathetic.

The Artist Must Know The Manner Whereby To Convince Others Of The Truthfulness Of His Lies.

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.

If You Are Trying To Find Something, It Means You Haven't Got It. And If You Find It Simply By Looking For It, That Means It's False.

When You Start With A Portrait And Try To Find Pure Form By Abstracting More And More, You Must End Up With An Egg.

Art Is An Instrument In The War Against The Enemy.

The World Today Doesn't Make Sense, So Why Should I Paint Pictures That Do?

Disciples Be Damned. It's Not Interesting. It's Only The Masters That Matter. Those Who Create.

Computers Are Useless - All They Can Give You Are Answers.

I Begin With An Idea And Then It Becomes Something Else.

I Don't Believe In Accidents. There Are Only Encounters In History. There Are No Accidents.

Success Is Dangerous. One Begins To Copy Oneself, And To Copy Oneself Is More Dangerous Than To Copy Others. It Leads To Sterility.

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.

I Have Never Made Radically Different Experiments. Whenever I Wanted To Say Something, I Said It The Way I Believed I Should.

Learn The Rules Like A Pro, So You Can Break Them Like An Artist.

Through Education Comes Understanding. Through Understanding Comes True Appreciation. All Children Are Artists. The Problem Is How To Remain An Artist Once He Grows Up.

When It Comes Right Down To It, All You Have Is Your Self. Your Self Is A Sun With A Thousand Rays.

I'd Like To Live As A Poor Man With Lots Of Money.

Colors, Like Features, Follow The Changes Of The Emotions.

I Don't Know In Advance What I Am Going To Put On Canvas Any More Than I Decide Beforehand What Colours I Am Going To Use.

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.

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.

Almost Every Evening, Either I Went To [georges] Braque's Studio Or Braque Came To Mine. Each Of Us Had To See What The Other Had Done During The Day. We Criticized Each Other's Work. A Canvas Wasn't Finished Unless Both Of Us Felt It Was.

All Children Are Artists

You Don't Make Art, You Find It

When Art Critics Get Together They Talk About Form And Structure And Meaning. When Artists Get Together They Talk About Where You Can Buy Cheap Turpentine.

I Deal With Painting As I Deal With Things, I Paint A Window Just As I Look Out Of A Window. If An Open Window Looks Wrong In A Picture, I Draw The Curtain And Shut It, Just As I Would In My Own Room. In Painting, As In Life, You Must Act Directly.

Rhythm Is A Perception Of Time... When Drawing, The Tiredness Of The Hand Is A Rhythm.

I Do Things I Don't Know How To Do In Order To Learn How To Do Them.

If It's Good, It's Mine. If It's Bad, It's A Fake.

If You Are A Genius And Unsuccessful, Everybody Treats You As If You Were A Genius, But When You Come To Be Successful, When You Commence To Earn Money, When You Are Really Successful, Then Your Family And Everybody No Longer Treats You Like A Genius, They Treat You Like A Man Who Has Become Successful.

The More Technique There Is, The Less There Is

I Don't Develop; I Am.

Never Copy Yourself, Always Copy Someone Else.

Ah, Good Taste! What A Dreadful Thing! Taste Is The Enemy Of Creativeness.

To Be Young, Really Young, Takes A Very Long Time.

There's Nothing Worse Than A Brilliant Beginning.

Art Isn't Done To Decorate Apartments, But To Wage War Against The Enemy.

An Artist Must Forget Painting When He Paints. That's The Only Way He Will Do Original Work.

I Like All Paintings. I Always Look At The Paintings, Good Or Bad, In Barbershops, Furniture Stores, Provincial Hotels. I'm Like A Drinker Who Needs Wine. As Long As It Is Wine, It Doesn't Matter Which Wine.

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

The Only Thing That's Important Is The Legend Created By The Picture, And Not Whether It Continues To Exist Itself.

I Am Always Doing That Which I Cannot Do, In Order That I May Learn How To Do It.

The Path To Youth Takes A Lifetime.

If I Like It, I Say It's Mine. If I Don't I Say It's A Fake.

Painting Is Stronger Than Me, It Makes Me Do It's Bidding.

I Never Calculate. That Is Why Those Who Do, Calculate So Much Less Accurately Than I.

The Genius Of Einstein Leads To Hiroshima.

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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.

If One Knows Exactly What Is Going To Be Done, Why Do It?

Cubism Is Not A Reality You Can Take In Your Hand. It's More Like A Perfume, In Front Of You, Behind You, To The Sides, The Scent Is Everywhere But You Don’t Quite Know Where It Comes From.

When I Enter The Studio, I Leave My Body At The Door The Way The Moslems Leave Their Shoes When They Enter The Mosque, And I Only Allow My Spirit To Go In There And Paint.

Computers Are Stupid.

Painting Is Not Made To Decorate Apartments. It's An Offensive And Defensive Weapon Against The Enemy. (about Guernica).

Imitators? All Right! Disciples If You Like. But Disciples Be Damned. It's Not Interesting.

The First Half Of Life Is Learning To Be An Adult-the Second Half Is Learning To Be A Child.

No Doubt, It Is Useful For An Artist To Know All The Forms Of Art Which Have Preceded Or Which Accompany His. That Is A Sign Of Strength If It Is A Question Of Looking For A Stimulus Or Recognizing Mistakes He Must Avoid.

If You Have Five Elements Available Use Only Four. If You Have Four Elements Use Three.

You Can't Escape Your Own Period. Whether You Take Sides For Or Against, You're Always In It.

There Is No Abstract Art. You Must Always Start With Something. Afterward You Can Remove All Traces Of Reality.

I Put In My Pictures Everything I Like. So Much The Worse For The Things - They Have To Get Along With One Another.

...the Right To Free Expression Is Something One Seizes, Not Something One Is Given.... If It Does Exist, It Exists To Be Used Against The Established Order.... There Is Absolute Opposition Between The Artist And The State.

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