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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973In: Sergei Eisenstein (1957), Film form [and]: The film sense, p. 127.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
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 Picasso1881–1973
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
- Photography
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973Picasso quoted in ‘TIME’; quoted in: The Atlantic, Vol. 214 (1964), p. 97.
- God
A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man that sells what he paints.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
I don’t work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
- Nature
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato429–349 BCThe RepublicIn context
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (c. 375 BC), Book IIIIn context
- Education
- Music
There is an ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (c. 375 BC), Book XIn context
- Philosophy
- Poetry
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Philosophy of Composition (1846), p.122 Line 17
- Life & Death
- Poetry
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Bells (1849)In context
- Music