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Pablo Picasso
said
I can hardly understand the importance given to the word research in connection with modern painting. In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing.
— p. 315
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
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Co-founder of Cubism and the most restlessly inventive painter of the 20th century, whose fracturing of form and relentless stylistic mutations—from melancholy blue canvases to the shattered planes of constructed sculpture—rewrote what a picture could be.
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Born in Spain in 1881, Picasso trained under his father from age seven and painted with naturalistic precision through adolescence. After 1906, spurred by a rivalry with Henri Matisse, he began the stylistic upheavals that defined him: the Blue Period's sorrow, the Rose Period's warmth, then the African-influenced work that led to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907. With Georges Braque he invented Cubism, splitting it into Analytic and Synthetic phases through 1919. He moved through neoclassicism in the early twenties, flirted with Surrealism by mid-decade, and later fused elements from across…
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Pablo Picasso
said
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
— p. 315.
Pablo Picasso
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Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all.
— p. 319.
Pablo Picasso
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Variation does not mean evolution.
— p. 391.
Pablo Picasso
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Many think that Cubism is an art of transition, an experiment which is to bring ulterior results. Those who think that way have not understood it.
— p. 323.
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