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Best One Quotes by Pablo Picasso
- The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the…
- 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…
- When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
- Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one…
- Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
- Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
- One must act in painting as in life, directly.
- If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
- I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
- One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
- Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to…
- When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise,…
- Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
- Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world,…
- Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that…
- There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes
- What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
- Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only:…
- Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one,…
- In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does…
- Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
- Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow up.
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