Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

"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."
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"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."
Pablo Picasso
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
Pablo Picasso
"What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
Pablo Picasso
"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."
Pablo Picasso
"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
"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Pablo Picasso
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"
Pablo Picasso
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso
"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
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
Pablo Picasso
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
Pablo Picasso
"It takes a very long time to become young."
Pablo Picasso
"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."
Pablo Picasso
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso
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