Pablo Picasso
He would look at a face and think, “Why settle for one side when I can draw all of them at once?” Brilliant, restless, and endlessly curious, he treated the world like a canvas – sometimes cubed, sometimes abstract, always surprising.
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25 October 1881
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Spain
#quotes
"When I was a child 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."
#whatif
...Picasso had lived in the 21st century?
#quotes
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."
#quotes
"When I hear people speak of the evolution of an artist, it seems to me that they are considering him standing between two mirrors that face each other and reproduce his image an infinite number of times, and that they contemplate the successive images of one mirror as his past, and the images of the other mirror as his future, while his real image is taken as his present. They do not consider that they all are the same images in different planes..."
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