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" Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? "
Pablo Picasso
Behind
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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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" 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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" Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? "
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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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" Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. "
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" To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. "
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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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" Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? "
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" If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. "
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" 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. "
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" I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. "
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" 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. "
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" An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. "
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" Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. "
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" You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. "
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" If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. "
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" The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. "
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" I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. "
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" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. "
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You
Left
" Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. "
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" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "
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" If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. "
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" The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? "
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