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" To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. "
Pablo Picasso
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "
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" Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. "
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" Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. "
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" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "
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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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" The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? "
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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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" You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. "
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" To draw you must close your eyes and sing. "
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" Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? "
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" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "
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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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" Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. "
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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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" 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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