“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
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Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
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“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
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“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
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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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“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
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“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.”
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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as mu...”
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“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”
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“Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.”
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“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.”
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“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
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“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
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“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
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“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
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“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”
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“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
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“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”
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“To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.”
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“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!”
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“When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.”
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