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When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of
discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
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,
from a spider’s web.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once
he grows up.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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.
People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone.
That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but
believes itself to be more practical than any other age.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Youth has no age.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon
as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
- Pablo Ruiz Picasso
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