Action is the foundational key to all success.
PABLO PICASSOWhen I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
More Pablo Picasso Quotes
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
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Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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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.
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To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
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I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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Lord, protect me from what I want!
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People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age.
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My hand tells me what I’m thinking.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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Youth has no age.
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The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.
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The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.
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A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it’s bidding.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
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