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Otto Pacht

Where art is concerned, in the beginning was the eye not the word.

Gordon Parks

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs.  I knew at that point I had to have a camera.  [1999 interview]

Grayson Perry

We're unhappy encountering artwork without knowing the "correct
interpretation" but we are all equally well qualified to say "Yuk or Wow."
[The Times 2006]

Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

In order to draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

    Pablo Picasso   Painting is not done to decorate apartments.  It is an institution of war for 
      attack and defense against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely wrong.  
[Quoted in Picasso on Art edited by Dora Ashton]

Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is to wash from the soul the dust of daily life.

Pablo Picasso

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Pablo Picasso

You expect me to tell you what art is?  
If I knew, I would keep that knowledge to myself.

Camille Pissarro

It is a grave error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely connected to their time.

Jackson Pollock

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or any other past culture.  [1950 interview]

Steve Prefontaine

Talent is a myth.  [In the 1998 biopic Without Limits]

Marcel Proust

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another 
person sees.

updated August 2008

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