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Vote: | Action is the foundational key to all success. |
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Vote: | Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. |
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Vote: | All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." |
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Vote: | An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. |
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Vote: | Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. |
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Vote: | Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
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Vote: | Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. |
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Vote: | Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. |
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Vote: | Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. |
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Vote: | Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. |
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Vote: | Everything you can imagine is real. |
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Vote: | Give me a museum and I'll fill it. |
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Vote: | God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. |
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Vote: | He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. |
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Vote: | I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. |
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Vote: | I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. |
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Vote: | I do not seek. I find. |
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Vote: | I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. |
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Vote: | I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. |
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Vote: | I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same. |
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Vote: | I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. |
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Vote: | It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. |
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Vote: | It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care. |
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Vote: | It takes a long time to become young. |
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Vote: | Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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 happiness as your spare time. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; 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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Vote: | One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. |
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Vote: | One must act in painting as in life, directly. |
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Vote: | Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. |
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Vote: | Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. |
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Vote: | Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. |
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Vote: | Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. |
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Vote: | Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. |
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Vote: | The artist is a receptacle for the 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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Vote: | The artist is a recepticle for the 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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Vote: | The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. |
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Vote: | The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. |
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Vote: | The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. |
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Vote: | The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. |
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Vote: | The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. |
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Vote: | To draw you must close your eyes and sing. |
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Vote: | 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 as for the picture. |
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Vote: | We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. |
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Vote: | When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. |
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Vote: | Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. |
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Vote: | Youth has no age. |
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Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art.
His name in full was Pablo Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso Blasco López. His father was José Ruiz y Blasco; his mother, María Picasso y López. In his early years he signed his name Ruiz Blasco after his father but, from about 1901 he switched to using his mother's name.
Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, and is probably most famous as the founder, along with Georges Braque, of Cubism. However in a long life he produced a wide and varied body of work, the best-known being the Blue Period works which feature moving depictions of acrobats, harlequins, prostitutes, beggars and artists.
While Picasso was primarily a painter (in fact he believed that an artist must paint in order to be considered a true artist), he also worked with small ceramic and bronze sculptures, collage and even produced some poetry. "Je suis aussi un poète," as he quipped to his friends.
Several paintings by Picasso rank among the most expensive paintings in the world. On May 4, 2004 Picasso's painting Garçon à la pipe was sold for USD $104 million at Sotheby's, thus establishing a new price record (see also List of most expensive paintings).
Picasso hated to be alone when he wasn't working. In Paris, in addition to having a distinguished coterie of friends in the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters, including André Breton, Guillaume Apollinaire, writer Gertrude Stein and others, he usually maintained a number of mistresses in addition to his wife or primary partner.
In the 1915 photograph seen here are friends (left to right): Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Henri-Pierre Roché (in uniform), Marie Vassilieff, Max Jacob and Pablo Picasso.
Arguably Picasso's most famous work is his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica, Spain; Guernica. This large canvas embodies for many the inhumanity, brutality and hopelessness of war. The painting of the picture was captured in a series of photographs by Picasso's most famous lover, Dora Maar, a distinguished artist in her own right. Guernica hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art for many years; Picasso stipulated that the painting should not return to Spain until democracy was restored in that country. In 1981 Guernica was returned to Spain and exhibited at the Casón del Buen Retiro. In 1992 the painting became one of the main attractions in Madrid's Reina Sofía Museum when it opened.
Picasso was extremely talented as a painter and draughtsman, even by the standards of the world's great artists. He worked with equal facility in oil, watercolour, pastels, charcoal, pencil, and ink. He famously rendered complex scenes as just a few geometric shapes in his mixed-media Cubist works but he also produced masterful realist portraits throughout his life. His pen and ink sketches of his friends from the Cubist era and afterward are valued for their understated intimacy, examples of the fluidity of his skills. Indeed, Picasso moved with ease among the plastic arts despite limited academic training (he finished only one year at the Royal Academy in Madrid). His natural talents were augmented by a ferocious work ethic that survived into the final years of his long life.
Early life
Picasso's father, José Ruiz y Blasco, was himself a painter and curator and for most of his life was a professor of art at Spanish colleges. It is from Don José that Picasso learned the basics of formal academic art training – figure drawing, and painting in oil. Although Picasso attended art schools throughout his childhood, often those where his father taught, he never finished his college level course of study at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, leaving after less than a year.
The Picasso Museum in Barcelona features many of Picasso's early works, created while he was living in Spain, as well as the extensive collection of Jaime Sabartés, Picasso's close friend from his Barcelona days and for many years Picasso's personal secretary. There are many precise and detailed figure studies done in his youth under his father's tutelage, as well as rarely seen works from his old age, that clearly demonstrate Picasso's firm grounding in classical techniques.
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