Creative Quotations from Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) born on Oct 25 Spanish painter, sculptor; He was a seminal modern artist who, with Braque, founded.

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Creative Quotations from Pablo Picasso ( ) born on Oct 25 Spanish painter, sculptor; He was a seminal modern artist who, with Braque, founded the Cubist movement.

I do not seek. I find.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how To remain an artist once he grows up.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

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