The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
PABLO PICASSOPainting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
More Pablo Picasso Quotes
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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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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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The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
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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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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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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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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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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse, but surely you will see the wildness!
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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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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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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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There’s nothing more difficult than a line.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
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Painting it’s a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.
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What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
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In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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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 paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
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Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.
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