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Art Quotes

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

― Pablo Picasso

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."

― Pablo Picasso

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. "

― Pablo Picasso

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. "

― Pablo Picasso

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. "

― Pablo Picasso

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. "

― Pablo Picasso

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. "

― Pablo Picasso

"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth"

― Pablo Picasso

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

― Pablo Picasso

"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."

― Pablo Picasso

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."

― Pablo Picasso

"When I was a child, 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."

― Pablo Picasso

"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction."

― Eckhart Tolle

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

― Vincent Van Gogh

"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

― Vincent Van Gogh

"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."

― Vincent Van Gogh

"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?"

― Salvador Dali

"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."