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Pablo Picasso [1881-1973] Spanish

Rank: 4
Artist (with paintings), Painter
Cubism, Surrealism

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.	Art, Life	101
It takes a long time to become young.	Birthday, Time	102
Action is the foundational key to all success.	Success	103
Youth has no age.	Age, Birthday	104
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.		105
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.	Learning	106
The artist is a receptacle for 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.	Art	107
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.		108
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.		109
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.		110
Everything you can imagine is real.	Imagination	111
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.	Art	112
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.	Computers	113
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.	Positive	114
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?		115
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.	Imagination	116
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.		117
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.		118
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.	Brainy	119
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.	Wisdom	120
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.		121
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.		122
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.	Happiness, Time, Work	123
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.		124
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.	Art, Beauty	125
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.	Work	126
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.	Art, Truth	201
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.		202
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.	Art	203
We don't grow older, we grow riper.		204
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.		205
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?		206
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.		207
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.		208
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.		209
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.	Truth	210
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.	Success	211
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.		212
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.		213
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.	Good	214
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.	Success	215
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.	Art, Business	216
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.	Mom	217
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.		218
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.		219
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.	Art, Intelligence	220
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.		221
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.		222
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.		223
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.		224
Good artists copy, great artists steal.	Great	225
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.	Women	226
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?		301
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.	Art	302
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.		303
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.		304
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.	Money	305
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.	Art	306
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.	History	307
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.	Work	308
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.		309
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.		310
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.	Love	311
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!		312
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.		313
One must act in painting as in life, directly.		314
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.		315
I do not seek. I find.	Brainy	316
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.		317
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.	Work	318
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.		319
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.		320
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.		321
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?		322
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.		323
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.		324
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.		325
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.		326
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.		401

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