Saturday, January 15, 2011

Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
-Pablo Picasso

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
-Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success.
-Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.
-Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
-Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
-Pablo Picasso

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
-Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
-Pablo Picasso

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
-Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
-Pablo Picasso

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
-Pablo Picasso

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
-Pablo Picasso

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