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Work Quotes by Pablo Picasso
- When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
- I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
- You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten,…
- 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…
- An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
- I am exhausted if I don't work.
- 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…
- Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my…
- Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
- To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be…
- The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
- Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and…
- To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
- I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
- To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not…
- My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.'…
- Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare…
- It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
- Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
- To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it…
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