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Us Quotes by Pablo Picasso
- 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…
- Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
- When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
- Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had…
- We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
- Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in…
- 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…
- Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
- There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us...
- 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…
- Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
- Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
- Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where…
- We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us…
- There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes
- 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,…
- We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given…
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