Spanish - Artist | October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
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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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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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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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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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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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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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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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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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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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