Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting. Pablo Picasso More Quotes by Pablo Picasso More Quotes From Pablo Picasso Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance. Pablo Picasso progressusemean 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. Pablo Picasso insecuritypainartist For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing. Pablo Picasso i-canchoices If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are. Pablo Picasso guernicagivingideas One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. Pablo Picasso paintingdifferentinspirational We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. Pablo Picasso cellsdeterminationart It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is. Pablo Picasso artistdoe There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. Pablo Picasso brilliantphotographyphotographer I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another. Pablo Picasso composition 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. Pablo Picasso distinctionartistclass Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. Pablo Picasso hungermiseryartist 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. Pablo Picasso godsuccessinspirational I don't seek, I find. Pablo Picasso When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you Pablo Picasso uglycomplicatedworry What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements. Pablo Picasso colormenideas [In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am Pablo Picasso developing I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. Pablo Picasso believehistoryart When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me. Pablo Picasso paintartistpast Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. Pablo Picasso readingbookart If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance. Pablo Picasso realwould-begiving
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