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One Quotes by Pablo Picasso
- I want to know one thing, what is color?
- One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
- Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he…
- A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes…
- For a long time I limited myself to one colour—as a form of discipline.
- One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
- As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A…
- Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
- We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
- There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What…
- Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do,…
- If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
- Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.
- ...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal,…
- ...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…
- So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
- All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one…
- He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the…
- There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
- Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's…
- 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…
- It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas…
- There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us...
- A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
- I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.
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