Canvas Quote by Pablo Picasso

“If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.”

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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

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When I haven't any blue I use red.

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The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens…

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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…

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If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer…

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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

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Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the…

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It takes a long time to become young.

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given…

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You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

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The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do…

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Action is the foundational key to all success. --Pablo Picasso

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The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where,…

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The white T-shirt is like a blank canvas - eternally versatile.

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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant…

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My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night…

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Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract…

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The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

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An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with…

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Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same…

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