"It takes a long time to become young."

Picasso, Pablo on Age and Aging
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"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail."

Picasso, Pablo on Detail
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"Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create."

Picasso, Pablo on Disciples
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"Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt."

Picasso, Pablo on Drawing
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."

Picasso, Pablo on Faces
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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."

Picasso, Pablo on Fame
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"Drink to me."

Picasso, Pablo on Famous Last Words
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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."

Picasso, Pablo on Fashion
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"The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

Picasso, Pablo on Genius
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"It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace."

Picasso, Pablo on Genius
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"Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man."

Picasso, Pablo on Accidents
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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on Achievement
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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 keeps on trying other things."

Picasso, Pablo on God
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"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."

Picasso, Pablo on Ideas
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"Everything you can imagine is real."

Picasso, Pablo on Imagination
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"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."

Picasso, Pablo on Imitation
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"It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care."

Picasso, Pablo on Indifference
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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."

Picasso, Pablo on Individuality
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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."

Picasso, Pablo on Inspiration
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"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."

Picasso, Pablo on Miracles
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"Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things."

Picasso, Pablo on Museums and Galleries
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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."

Picasso, Pablo on Nudity
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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Picasso, Pablo on Painters and Painting
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"I paint objects as I think them not as I see them."

Picasso, Pablo on Painters and Painting
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"Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; 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."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"The people who make art their business are mostly impostors."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"Through art we express our conception of what nature is not."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"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. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait."

Picasso, Pablo on Portraits
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"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

Picasso, Pablo on Progress
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"It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction."

Picasso, Pablo on Purpose
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"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."

Picasso, Pablo on Sculptures
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"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."

Picasso, Pablo on Sculptures
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"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"

Picasso, Pablo on Beauty
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"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."

Picasso, Pablo on Censorship
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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."

Picasso, Pablo on Childhood
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"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"

Picasso, Pablo on Sympathy
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