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1881–1973 France
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish artist who lived and worked in Paris for many years. Around 1906–1908 together with Georges Braque Picasso initiated cubism, based on a strong inspiration of Paul Cézanne's work.
Also known as: Picasso, Picasso, Pablo
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"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."
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The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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I do not see why so much importance should be attached to the idea of 'research' in painting.
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Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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"No. It took me sixty years to draw that."
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I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.
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For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.
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Yo no busco, yo encuentro.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it becomes something else.
Attributed Ann Livermore (1988)
Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
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If they took away all my paints, I'd use pastels, if they took away my pastels, I'd use crayons, if they took away my crayons, I'd use a pencil. If they put me in a cell, and stripped me of everything, I'd spit on my finger and draw on the wall.
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