583 Quotes by Pablo Picasso


  • Author Pablo Picasso
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    Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It’s more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

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    If it’s good, it’s mine. If it’s bad, it’s a fake.

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    The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.

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    Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.

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    I’m a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

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    Something sacred, that’s it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is “touched by God.”

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    I don’t know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

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