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Quote of Pablo Picasso - I paint objects as I think...


Biography - Pablo Picasso:

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

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



Translation

Translation

(French, German, Spanish)



French
Je ne peins pas ce que je vois, je peins ce que je pense.

German
Ich male die Dinge, wie ich sie denke, nicht wie ich sie sehe.

Spanish
Yo no pinto lo que veo, pinto lo que pienso.




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Quotes for: to think


Quotes

Quotes for: to think


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.





I think, therefore I am.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.











Quotes for: painting


Quotes

Quotes about painting:


I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.





Eloquence is a painting of thought.





Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.





It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.





No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.





If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.











Quotes

Pablo Picasso also said...




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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