Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.
El arte es la mentira que nos permite comprender la verdad.
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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Art does not need us, but we need art.
-- Kazimir Malevich
Truth, not appearance.
-- Diego Velázquez
I would rather be first to paint ugliness than second to paint beauty.
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To paint as I see, not as others wish me to see.
-- El Greco
I hold the imitation of color to be the greatest difficulty of art.
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If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping from a window in the time it takes him to fall, you will never produce great work.
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