The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Quotes by Pablo Picasso
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
It takes a long time to become young.
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.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Youth has no age.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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 time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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