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Spanish painter and one of the most influential figures in 20th-century art. Picasso is renowned for his unique artistic style and prolific career, encompassing various fields such as painting, sculpture, and printmaking. His paintings have gone through several phases, from the early Blue Period to the later Cubism, profoundly impacting 20th-century art.

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“What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.”

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“I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.”

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“Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”

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“It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.”

Want Important Ideas Done Remember Letting Go Great Things Our Time Manifest Schedules No Fear Have No Fear

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“Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.”

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“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.”

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“It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.”

Ideas Artist Emotion Objects

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“Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.”

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“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

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Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”

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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.”

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“This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.”

Art Ideas Sake Hoaxes

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“If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.”

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“What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.”

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Book:Picasso; the artist and his model: and other recent works

Source: Picasso; the artist and his model: and other recent works

“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”

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“What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”

Ideas Interest My Own Spite Capture Self Interest

Author:Pablo Picasso

About the Author

Born: October 25, 1881
Died: April 8, 1973
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 448

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