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Inspirational Quotes by Pablo Picasso

78 Inspirational quotes by Pablo Picasso

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One never knows what one is going to do, as a painting can turn into something unexpected. He values the first attempt in drawing and often paints again just to relax. Discovering photography made him feel he had nothing left to learn, yet he kept creating art.

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I am exhausted if I don't work.

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To model an object is to possess it.

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I want to know one thing, what is color?

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If I don't have red, I use blue.

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I do not evolve, I am.

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In the end there is only Matisse.

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Computers are stupid.

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I paint what I think, not what I see.

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The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

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We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

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I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.

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So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

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To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

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We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

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When you're really young, you're young for life.

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That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

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The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

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I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

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You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.

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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…

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I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with…

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All art is subversive.

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You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

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All Children are Artists

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Action is the foundation of all success.

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Lord, protect me from what I want!

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If you can imagine it...it is real

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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

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Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

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If there is something to steal, I steal it.

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[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am

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We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

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I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

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If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

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There's nothing more difficult than a line.

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When I haven't any blue I use red.

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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

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It takes a long time to become young.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given…

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do…

Action is the foundational key to all success. --Pablo Picasso

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on…

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living…