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“For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography”

Quote by Pablo Picasso

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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. more

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“A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it”

Mind States Done Painting Goes On Finished State Of Mind Being Done

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“If there is something to steal, I steal it.”

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“For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping”

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“For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.”

Long Form Discipline Long Time Colour

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“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Heart Eye Political Artist Levels Events Poet Musician Ears Contrary Painter Burning His Eyes Muscles Boxers Imbeciles Molding

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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.”

People Art Spirit Lying Mistake Poverty Stupidity Ridiculous Deceit Museums Petty Imposter Ridiculous Things

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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.”

Ifs Giving May Ideas Certain Objects Painting Paint Conclusion Very True Guernica

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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.”

Has Beens Numbers Fashion Style Painting Involved Remains Wave Snob Speculators Connoisseur

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.”

Men Beautiful Moving Night Left Dark Poor Habit Absurd Sensitive Marvelous Dark Night

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“It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.”

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Author:Louis Aragon