"It's not what the artist does that..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
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“One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.”
“It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.”
“When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.”
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“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. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.”
“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
“No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.”