There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

—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 is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

—Pablo Picasso

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape…

—Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

—Pablo Picasso

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

—Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

—Pablo Picasso

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We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

—Robert Wilensky

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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

—William Faulkner

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

—Edmond de Goncourt

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Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

—Mary Pickford

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In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

—George Orwell

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