Pablo Picasso Quotes About Art
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
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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.
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Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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I draw like other people bite their nails.
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All art is subversive.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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I do not seek. I find.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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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.
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Art is lies that tell the truth.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
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Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.
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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
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The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
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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.
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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.
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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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.
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In art, practice always comes before theory.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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