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Pablo Picasso

1881-1973. Full name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso, a Spanish painter and sculptor, co-founder of cubism.

1. "You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Question and Problem

2. "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Truth and Falsity

3. "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Reality and Imagination

4. "There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."

categories: Art and Culture

5. "The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

categories: Talent and Genius

6. "Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Success and Fame

7. "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Memory

8. "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."

categories: Art and Culture

9. "Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise."

categories: Art and Culture

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

categories: Art and Culture -:- Truth and Falsity

11. "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

categories: Art and Culture

12. "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."

categories: Art and Culture -:- God and Religion

13. "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand... People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree."

categories: Art and Culture

14. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Youth and Age


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