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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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Biography Diary Page Painting People
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Abstract Art Inspirational Reality Remove Start Trace
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
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Artist Come Earth Emotion Place Shape Sky Spider
The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.
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Always Birthday Face Old Strong Wind
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.
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Art Help Intelligence Painting Spot Sun Transformation Yellow
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Art Done Future Willing
Art is a leap into the dark.
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Art Darkness Leap One Liner
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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Artist Cat Elephant Giraffe God Invention Style Try
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That’s the only way he will do original work.
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Artist Forget Original Painting Work
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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Hide Nature
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age.
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Age Disease Finding Human Nature People
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.
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Art Artist Giving Manner Realize Truth Understand
Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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Creative Enemy One Liner Painting Taste
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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Artist Buy Cheap Criticism Structure Talk Togetherness
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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Change Colour Emotion Feature Painting
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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Feeling Himself Painting Vision

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