Pablo Picasso Quotes

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Place

• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
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• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

  

  Rachel Perry
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• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

  

  Beatrice Wood
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• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
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• You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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• You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
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  • Giving

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
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• I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

  

  Ice T
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• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Problems

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Table

• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Education
  • Materialism

• Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

  

  Amy Chua
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• 'What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?''It has problems, I admit.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • True
  • Stupid

• I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.

  

  Adriano Giannini
  • House

• In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • American
  • Myself
  • Explore

• ... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
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• As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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