Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. — Quoted

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“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

Pablo Picasso · Art

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Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

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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, from a spider's web.

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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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