Pablo Picasso

(1881–1973) · Spanish Painter

Was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer.

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Pablo Picasso

(1881–1973) · Spanish Painter

Was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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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