"I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it."
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Pablo Picasso quotes (page 22 of 22)
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"Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty."
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"For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography"
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"Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names."
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"To be young, really young, takes a very long time."
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"Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it."
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"I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future."
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"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."
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"I don't seek, I find."
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"What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man."
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"[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am"
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"It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it."
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"I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire."
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"The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm."
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"Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible."
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"I'm not a developer; I am."
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"The more technique there is, the less there is"
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