Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Cada acto de creación es, ante todo, un acto de destrucción.
Artists
Pablo Picasso
Born in Malaga in 1881, Picasso co-founded Cubism and transformed 20th-century art. He left some fifty thousand works and reinvented his style every few years; Guernica remains the defining anti-war image.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
-- Claude Monet
Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected.
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I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.
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If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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I do not seek; I find.
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Painting requires continuous thought and tireless labor.
-- Sandro Botticelli