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" One must act in painting as in life, directly. "
Pablo Picasso
Life
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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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" Give me a museum and I'll fill it. "
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" To draw you must close your eyes and sing. "
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" Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. "
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" It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. "
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" Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. "
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" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. "
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" To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. "
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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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Childhood
" I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. "
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" There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. "
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" Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. "
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" Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. "
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Matter
Who
" When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. "
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Ship
Will
Shipwreck
" One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. "
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Think
People
" 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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Grace
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" I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. "
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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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Theme
Truth
" When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. "
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Mother
Soldier
Me
" If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. "
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Brain
Eyes
" 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. "
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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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" 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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