Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'"
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Guernica
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Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»"
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"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
Painter, Sculptor
"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica)."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art."
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