All Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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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.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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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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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.
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