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Quote by Pablo Picasso
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. – Pablo Picasso

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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. – Pablo Picasso

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Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. – Michel Leiris

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The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. – Jean Cocteau

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