Pablo Picasso
Spain
25 Oct 1881 // 8 Apr 1973
Painter / Sculptor
25 Oct 1881 // 8 Apr 1973
Painter / Sculptor
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness
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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