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"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."

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"All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life."

Life, Work, Day, End

"When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it."

Art, People

"Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it."

Life, Succeed, Want

"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"

Work, Intention

"In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession."

Art, Work, Artist, Measure

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

Fact, Facts

"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair."

Life, Now, Reality, Rest

"I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do."

Work, Order, Want

"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."

Reality,

"Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away."

Relationship, Girls, Present, Right

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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Art, Appearance

"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."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Art, Truth, Lie

"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Art, Soul, Man

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Art, Truth, Lie

"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Art, Gods, Poets

"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."

Barack Obama, American President

Art, Remarkable, Space, Today

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Art, Science, Truth, Error