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Description
Small portrait done at work - about 4" by 6". Picasso is among my favorite artists, and I find his work so powerful because of, among other things, the brute honesty and curiosity of it.

Quotes:
"For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was made for the present."

"Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself."

"I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room."

"A painting is not the result of working toward a goal, it is a stroke of luck, an experience."

"I have never painted anything but my time."

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

"The academic gospel of beauty is a fraud."

"A painter paints to rid himself of his sensations and his visions."

"I want the work to reflect only feeling."

"From the point of view of art, forms are neither abstract nor concrete; they are simply forms-lies-some of which are more convincing than others."

"There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Then all traces of reality can be removed. There isn't any danger then, because the idea of the object has left an indelible mark. It is what moved the artist originally, inspired his ideas, set his emotions to vibrating. In the end his ideas and emotions become imprisoned in his painting. No matter what happens, they can no longer escape from the picture."

"No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war, for attack and for defense against the enemy."

"In our mutilated epoch, nothing is more important than to create enthusiasm."

Description
Small portrait done at work - about 4" by 6". Picasso is among my favorite artists, and I find his work so powerful because of, among other things, the brute honesty and curiosity of it.

Quotes:
"For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was made for the present."

"Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself."

"I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room."

"A painting is not the result of working toward a goal, it is a stroke of luck, an experience."

"I have never painted anything but my time."

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

"The academic gospel of beauty is a fraud."

"A painter paints to rid himself of his sensations and his visions."

"I want the work to reflect only feeling."

"From the point of view of art, forms are neither abstract nor concrete; they are simply forms-lies-some of which are more convincing than others."

"There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Then all traces of reality can be removed. There isn't any danger then, because the idea of the object has left an indelible mark. It is what moved the artist originally, inspired his ideas, set his emotions to vibrating. In the end his ideas and emotions become imprisoned in his painting. No matter what happens, they can no longer escape from the picture."

"No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war, for attack and for defense against the enemy."

"In our mutilated epoch, nothing is more important than to create enthusiasm."