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"You're either a goddess ... or a doormat."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Doormat #Goddess
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Four Years #Fine Arts #Art And Artists
"I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Passion #Skeletons #Rhinoceros
"You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Answers #Walks #Remains
"Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects"
--- Pablo Picasso
#Suspects #Done #My Own
"Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Technique #Style #Lifetime
"No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Stimulus #Strength #Recognizing
"Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Impossible #Creativity #Solitude
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Feels #Blind Man #Perception
"So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Tactics #Seers #Freedom
"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Answers #Questioning #Deceit
"My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Struggle #Whole #Whole Life
"If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint."
--- Pablo Picasso
#If I Could #Paint #Ifs
"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Stones #Now And Then #Doors
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Questions And Answers #Answers #Spirituality
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Realizing #Convince #Knows
"Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Havens #Today #Danger
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Being An Artist #Fine Artists #Fine Arts
"If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!"
--- Pablo Picasso
#Horse #Might #Wildness
"Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Contact #Dangerous #Chaste
"You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Eye #Made #Breasts
"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
--- Pablo Picasso
#People #Thinking #Peaches
"When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Feels #Past #Artist
"If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Humor #Mines #Fake
"When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Visitors #Tired #Doing Nothing
"I hate it when people pilfer my things."
--- Pablo Picasso
#People #I Hate #Hate
"In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Reason #Sufficient #Deeds
"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."
--- Pablo Picasso
#People #Ships #Dies
"Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Beauty #Knows #Beautiful Women
"I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them."
--- Pablo Picasso
#Months #Six #Done

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