Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
PABLO PICASSOEvery act of creation is first an act of destruction.
More Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.
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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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When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
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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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Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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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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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
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Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
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I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
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Lord, protect me from what I want!
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The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
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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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Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.
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Youth has no age.
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Art is a leap into the dark.
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Don’t waste your youth growing up.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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