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Quote of Pablo Picasso - Art is not the application of...


Biography - Pablo Picasso:

Spanish painter and sculptor.
Born: 1881 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Spain
Spain

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.



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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.




Quotes for: love


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Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: art


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Quotes about art:


Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





My trade and art is to live.





The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.











Quotes for: beauty


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Quotes about beauty:


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.





All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





What beauty is, I know not.





I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.





Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.











Quotes for: Instinct


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Quotes for: Instinct


In art as in love, instinct is enough.





The ignoble nature is distinguished by the fact that it keeps its advantage steadily in view, and that this thought of the end and advantage is even stronger than its strongest impulse.





Man is neither good nor bad, he is born with instincts and aptitudes.





Two things teach man about his whole nature: instinct and experience.





Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.





I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.











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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.





I do not seek, I find.





Youth has no age.





It takes a long time to become young.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





A picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.












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