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Artist Quotes by Pablo Picasso
- 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.
- 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…
- It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
- The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
- What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is…
- In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
- The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
- I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict…
- When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several…
- As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
- I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
- An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
- When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
- If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
- ...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's…
- ...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the…
- An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is…
- When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an…
- Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an…
- When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of…
- Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should…
- No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a…
- Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- Good artists copy, great artists steal.
- Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
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