Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
PABLO PICASSOThe world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
More Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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Love is the greatest refreshment in life
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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We don’t grow older we grow riper.
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The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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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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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.
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What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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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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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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I do not seek. I find.
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I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
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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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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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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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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.
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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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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
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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 I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
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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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