Pablo Picasso
Spain
25 Oct 1881 // 8 Apr 1973
Painter / Sculptor
25 Oct 1881 // 8 Apr 1973
Painter / Sculptor
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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
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents
I do not seek. I find
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things
Give me a museum and I'll fill it
Everything you can imagine is real
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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