Quote by Pablo Picasso
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. – Pablo Picasso

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I dont believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. – Pablo Picasso

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. – Pablo Picasso

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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. – Oliver Cromwell

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: theres another dog. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation. – E.T.Brown

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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God cant help but smile on it. – Josh Billings

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing — the result. – Vince Lombardi

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