Pablo Picasso

(30 votes)   One must act in painting as in life, directly.

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(19 votes)   Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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(17 votes)   Action is the foundational key to all success.

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(17 votes)   Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

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(15 votes)   Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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(13 votes)   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.

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(12 votes)   I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

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(12 votes)   It takes a long time to become young.

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(12 votes)   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.

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(12 votes)   The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

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(139 votes)   Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist

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(134 votes)   You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

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(106 votes)   If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

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(106 votes)   It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

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(96 votes)   Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

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