Quote by Pablo Picasso
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. - Pa

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. – Pablo Picasso

Other quotes by Pablo Picasso

Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. – Pablo Picasso

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positive
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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. – Pablo Picasso

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mom
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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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Imitation
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. – Baltasar Gracian

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Imitation

Man is an idiot. He doesnt know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. – Augusto Roa Bastos

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Imitation

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. – W. Winwood Reade

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Imitation

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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Its sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal. – Sue Johanson

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I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas – its always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal. – Youssou NDour

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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. – Max Beerbohm

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