Pablo Picasso
Spain
25 Oct 1881 // 8 Apr 1973
Painter / Sculptor
25 Oct 1881 // 8 Apr 1973
Painter / Sculptor
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense
The artist is a receptacle for the 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
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays