Pablo Picasso Quotes

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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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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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.
Pablo Picasso 


All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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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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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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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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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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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.
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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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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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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