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| Pablo Picasso
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. 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. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Everything you can imagine is real. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.Give me a museum, and I'll fill it. I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money. It takes a long time to become young. It takes a long time to grow young.Love is the greatest refreshment in life. My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. My mother said to me, If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. 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. When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso. When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky. When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. Youth has no age. |
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