Source: Picasso: style and meaning
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Famous Pablo Picasso Quotes
“For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography”
“For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.”
“The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.”
Source: Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939
Source: Picasso and photography: the dark mirror
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.”
“If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?”
Source: Picasso and his art
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.”
Source: Picasso: an American Tribute: Exhibition April 25-May 12, 1962
“I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.”
“An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.”
“To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”