No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
PABLO PICASSOEvery now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
More Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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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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Everything you can imagine is real.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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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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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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The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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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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Don’t waste your youth growing up.
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Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
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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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