"Enough of Art. It's Art that kills..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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“The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”
“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”
“Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.”
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“I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.”
“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”
“I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.”
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“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.”
“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”
“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.”