"People are always asking me to sign..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!
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“...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.”
“When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'”
“The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.”
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“Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.”
“In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.”
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
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“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”
“It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.”
“Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?”