Inspiring Quotes by Pablo Picasso - Page 2

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"To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved"

"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned, there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it"

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth"

"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better"

"One must act in painting as in life, directly"

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not?"

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock!"

"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"

"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea"

"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer"

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero"

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

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it"

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, he just goes on trying other things"

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it"

"Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create"

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

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