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Pablo Picasso, Le Picador ii, 1961
Lithograph 1961
I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole
lifetime to learn to draw like a child.
For me, creation first starts by contemplation, and I need long, idle hours of meditation. It is then
that I work most. I look at flies, at flowers, at leaves and trees around me. I
let my mind drift at ease, just like a boat in the current. Sooner or later, it
is caught by something. It gets precise. It takes shape … my next painting motif
is decided.
 
A Life of Picasso
John Richardson
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pablo
picasso
if only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
God created the giraffe, the cat, the elephant ...
He has no real style, he just keeps trying things.
Everything is a miracle.
It is a miracle that one
does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order
that I may learn how to do it.
I do not seek. I find.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Every act
of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come
from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of
paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
We all know that Art is not truth.
Art is a lie that makes us realize
the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to
paint.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once
one grows up.
It takes a long time to become young.
Youth has no age.
You mustn't always believe what I say.
Questions
tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
artisans
meditation
on
creativity
seeing without shadows
the wonder of wonder
artisans' gallery
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