Pablo Picasso Short Quotes

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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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Now at least we know everything that painting isn't.

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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

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The fig-leaves that hide the private parts of literature.

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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

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I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

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For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.

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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

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Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

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Of computers:
But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

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If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?

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It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.

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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

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When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.

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For a long time I limited myself to one colour — as a form of discipline.
On his 'blue' and 'rose' periods

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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

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The glories, trumpets, palms... and low reliefs,... all that makes a monument.

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The quality of a painter depends on the amount of the past he carries with him.

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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

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I don't know where he [Marc Chagall] gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.

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For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.

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Every positive value has its price in negative terms…The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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On the first moon landing:
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

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The passions that motivate you may change, but it is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

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