Pablo Picasso Quotes

Lord, protect me from what I want!
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God Protect Want
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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Copy Danger Oneself Painting Success
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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Artist Cat Elephant Giraffe God Invention Style Try
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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Beauty Come Painting Sense World
People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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Bark Explanation Humour People Photograph Tree Wrong
Don’t waste your youth growing up.
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Grow Up One Liner Waste Youth
There’s nothing more difficult than a line.
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Difficult Line Painting
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
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Artist Break Learning Motivational Rule
Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.
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Inspirational Learning Work Hard
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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Door Painting Photograph Step Stone Thinking
All art is erotic.
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Art Erotic One Liner
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Art Dust Life Purpose Soul Wash
Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Action Foundation Inspirational Key One Liner Success
The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.
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Always Birthday Face Old Strong Wind
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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Artist Buy Cheap Criticism Structure Talk Togetherness
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Accident Believe Encounter History
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Diary One Liner Painting
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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Art Help Intelligence Painting Spot Sun Transformation Yellow
I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.
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Nature Work
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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Hide Nature
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Abstract Art Inspirational Reality Remove Start Trace
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
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Artist Expression Painting Photographer True
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Art Eliminate Neccessary One Liner
I do not seek. I find.
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Artist Finding One Liner Seek
I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.
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Nature Work
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
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Hide Nature
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Abstract Art Inspirational Reality Remove Start Trace

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