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 …
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Pablo Picasso
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About Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bo…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Pablo PicassoNever permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happin…
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
It takes a long time to become young.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happin…
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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.
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.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happin…
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.