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" If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. "
Pablo Picasso
Paint
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" All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. "
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" What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. "
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" I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. "
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" Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. "
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" He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. "
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" The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. "
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" Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. "
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" I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. "
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" Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. "
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" The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. "
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" It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. "
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" Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. "
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" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "
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" What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. "
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Child
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" Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. "
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" The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. "
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Mostly
" To draw you must close your eyes and sing. "
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" When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. "
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" 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 of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. "
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" Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. "
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Realize
" I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. "
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I Am
Learning
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" One must act in painting as in life, directly. "
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" I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! "
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