Source: Picasso's Vollard Suite
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Famous Pablo Picasso Quotes
Source: The Picasso Book
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
Source: Pablo Picasso: the creative eye (from 1881 to 1914)
Source: A Picasso bestiary
Source: Picasso: style and meaning
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
Source: Picasso's Picassos
“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
“It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.”
Source: Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier
“In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.”
Source: Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“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.”
“When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.”
“If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.”