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People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but he was my father. I didn't have another.


Paloma Picasso

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PABLO PICASSO It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
PABLO PICASSO Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
PABLO PICASSO I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
PABLO PICASSO God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but k...
PABLO PICASSO There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
PABLO PICASSO Taste is the enemy of creativeness
PABLO PICASSO Art is the elimination of the unnecessary
PABLO PICASSO He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputa...
PABLO PICASSO When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
PABLO PICASSO Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
PABLO PICASSO Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
PABLO PICASSO What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such paint...
PABLO PICASSO When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you becom...
PABLO PICASSO When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get toget...
PABLO PICASSO We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that ...
PABLO PICASSO When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
PABLO PICASSO What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, ...
PABLO PICASSO Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
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