Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

—Pablo Picasso

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About Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention...

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It takes a long time to become young.

—Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

—Pablo Picasso

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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

—Pablo Picasso

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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

—Pablo Picasso

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

—Pablo Picasso

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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

—Rachel Carson

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You begin with the possibilities of the material.

—Robert Rauschenberg

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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