I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Pablo Picasso
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About Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bo…
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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 can find it.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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 to us to understand.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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.