"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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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   

"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   

"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."

Picasso, Pablo on sculptures   

"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   

"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   

"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 art
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

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

Picasso, Pablo on art
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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   

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

Picasso, Pablo on painters and painting   

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

Picasso, Pablo on painters and painting   

"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 art   

"The people who make art their business are mostly impostors."

Picasso, Pablo on art   

"Through art we express our conception of what nature is not."

Picasso, Pablo on art   

"If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art."

Picasso, Pablo on art   

"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"

Picasso, Pablo on sympathy   

"Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

Picasso, Pablo on taste   

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

Picasso, Pablo on taste
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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

Picasso, Pablo on computers   

"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste."

Picasso, Pablo on creativity
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"I do not seek, I find."

Picasso, Pablo on creativity   

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."

Picasso, Pablo on criticism   

"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."

Picasso, Pablo on culture
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"Doubt is the father of invention."

Galilei, Galileo on doubt
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"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

Galilei, Galileo on teacher
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"Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking   

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

Picasso, Pablo on color
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"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."

Picasso, Pablo on color
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"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."

Picasso, Pablo on techniques   

"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."

Picasso, Pablo on things and little things   

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

Picasso, Pablo on trust
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"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."

Picasso, Pablo on vision
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"Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock."

Picasso, Pablo on work   

"Youth has no age."

Picasso, Pablo on youth
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"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."

Picasso, Pablo on action
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