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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
– Pablo Picasso

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  3. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Pablo Picasso
  4. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso
  5. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. – Richard Diebenkorn
  6. 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. – Pablo Picasso
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  8. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone – Pablo Picasso
  9. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. – Pablo Picasso
  10. Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. – Pablo Picasso
  11. If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. – Pablo Picasso
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  30. Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. – Terry Eagleton
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