{"id":17340,"date":"2026-04-18T20:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=17340"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:51:19","slug":"picasso-unfiltered-30-lines-that-still-shake-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=17340","title":{"rendered":"Picasso Unfiltered: 30 Lines That Still Shake the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-start=\"118\" data-end=\"202\">\n<p data-start=\"121\" data-end=\"202\">Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"263\">\n<p data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"263\">Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"265\" data-end=\"319\">\n<p data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"319\">Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"359\">\n<p data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"359\">Everything you can imagine is real.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"361\" data-end=\"445\">\n<p data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"445\">I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"447\" data-end=\"517\">\n<p data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"517\">The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"519\" data-end=\"574\">\n<p data-start=\"522\" data-end=\"574\">Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"576\" data-end=\"616\">\n<p data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"616\">It takes a long time to become young.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"618\" data-end=\"669\">\n<p data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"669\">Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"749\">\n<p data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"749\">Learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"751\" data-end=\"801\">\n<p data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"801\">Action is the foundational key to all success.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"882\">\n<p data-start=\"807\" data-end=\"882\">Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"884\" data-end=\"946\">\n<p data-start=\"888\" data-end=\"946\">Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"948\" data-end=\"1066\">\n<p data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1066\">Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1068\" data-end=\"1156\">\n<p data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1156\">Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1158\" data-end=\"1206\">\n<p data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1206\">The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1280\">\n<p data-start=\"1212\" data-end=\"1280\">Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1360\">\n<p data-start=\"1286\" data-end=\"1360\">The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1423\">\n<p data-start=\"1366\" data-end=\"1423\">Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1425\" data-end=\"1482\">\n<p data-start=\"1429\" data-end=\"1482\">Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1484\" data-end=\"1530\">\n<p data-start=\"1488\" data-end=\"1530\">To draw you must close your eyes and sing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1532\" data-end=\"1573\">\n<p data-start=\"1536\" data-end=\"1573\">Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1575\" data-end=\"1613\">\n<p data-start=\"1579\" data-end=\"1613\">When I don\u2019t have red, I use blue.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1615\" data-end=\"1674\">\n<p data-start=\"1619\" data-end=\"1674\">It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1761\">\n<p data-start=\"1680\" data-end=\"1761\">The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1818\">\n<p data-start=\"1767\" data-end=\"1818\">I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1820\" data-end=\"1891\">\n<p data-start=\"1824\" data-end=\"1891\">Art is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1893\" data-end=\"1960\">\n<p data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1960\">There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1962\" data-end=\"2022\">\n<p data-start=\"1966\" data-end=\"2022\">I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2024\" data-end=\"2136\">\n<p data-start=\"2028\" data-end=\"2136\">Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. Everything you can imagine is real. 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