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Own Quotes by Pablo Picasso
- It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
- I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
- 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…
- To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my…
- What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
- You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that…
- I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
- People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has…
- You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
- What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is…
- We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if…
- I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford.
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