Objects Quotes by Pablo Picasso

10 Objects quotes by Pablo Picasso

Picasso’s eye turns the banal into bold statements about shape and perception. In ten brief thoughts you’ll catch his urge to deconstruct and reassemble the world around us.

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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To model an object is to possess it.

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If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only…

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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be…

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What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews…

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If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea…

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Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.…

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What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color…

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I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric,…

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Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are…

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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

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When I haven't any blue I use red.

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The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens…

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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…

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If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer…

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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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Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the…

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It takes a long time to become young.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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