Pablo Picasso quotes - page 8

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately. (Pablo Picasso)
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. View quote
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If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance. View quote
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same. View quote
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They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans. View quote
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One starts to get young at sixty, and then it's too late. View quote
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We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities. View quote
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When you come right down to it, all you have is your self. Your self is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing. View quote
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Now there is fame Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. View quote
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I am only a public entertainer who understands his time. View quote
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I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who 'appreciate' beauty. What is beauty, anyway Theres no such thing. I never 'appreciate,' any more than I 'like.' I love it or I hate. (Pablo Picasso)
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is 'touched by God.' View quote
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. View quote
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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. View quote
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Even the signature of Kodra is a work of art. View quote
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