"How often have I found that wanting..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
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“The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.”
“Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.”
“Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.”