Pablo Picasso Quotes

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• Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
• What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
• Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything…
• Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
• When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
• When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.
• Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
• I draw like other people bite their nails.
• I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
• When I haven't any blue I use red.
• I want to know one thing, what is color?
• The path to youth takes a lifetime.
• When you're really young, you're young for life.
• In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
• When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have…
• They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green,…
• Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
• All art is subversive.
• It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
• This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

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