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Pablo Picasso

Born: October 25, 1881

Died: April 8, 1973

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Artist

Biography: Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

Pablo Picasso

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

- Pablo Picasso

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“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

- Pablo Picasso

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“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.”

- Pablo Picasso

Source/Notes: In Spanish: "Una idea es un punto de partida, y nada más, para hacer algo. No lo es todo. Si te pones a trabajarla con el pensamiento se vuelve otra cosa." - Picasso: pintura y realidad: Textos, entrevistas y declaraciones (Libros del Astillero, 1973), p. 81, "1938"
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“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”

- Pablo Picasso

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“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”

- Pablo Picasso

Source/Notes: Picasso and Greece (2004 edition), Allemandi - ISBN: 9788842212713
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Pablo Picasso

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

- Pablo Picasso

Source/Notes: Attributed. Probably originated from Paul Valery quote: izquotes.com/quote/189322
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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

- Pablo Picasso

Source/Notes: "Picasso Speaks" in The Arts, New York, May 1923, p. 315
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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

- Pablo Picasso

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“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”

- Pablo Picasso

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“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

- Pablo Picasso

Source/Notes: "Pablo Picasso: A Composite Interview" by William Fifield
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“Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.”

- Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

- Pablo Picasso

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“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”

- Pablo Picasso

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“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.”

- Pablo Picasso

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