About Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor, co-founder of Cubism. (1881-1973)

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• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.As quoted in The Artist, vol. 93 (1978)
• There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.As quoted by Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form and The Film Sense (1957)
• It takes a very long time to become young.As quoted by Jean Cocteau, The Hand of a Stranger (1953)
• Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.Attributed in posthumous publications; no primary source

More quotes on creativity and innovation

• The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.Seth Godin
• Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take.Seth Godin
• In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure.Seth Godin
• The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.Seth Godin
• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.Abraham Lincoln
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson

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