"As an artist, all I need is..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
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“If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.”
“I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.”
“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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“The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.”
“Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.”
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.”
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“Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.”
“I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.”
“The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.”