Pablo Picasso Quotes

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Pablo Picasso

• Spirit
• Lies
• Poverty
• Pictures
• Museums

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• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

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  • Hurt
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• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

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• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

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  • Country
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• The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

  

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• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

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• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  

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• There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

  

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  • Scary
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• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

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  • Good
  • Great
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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

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  • Lies
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• I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

  

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  • Actor
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• Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.

  

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  • Cool
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• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

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  • Important
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  • Lies

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  

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• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

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  • Old

• Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

  

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• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  

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  • Science

• People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on the life, all you have to be faithful to is the spirit of the facts, which I think I was in every case. As long as you don't violate their spirit, you can play with the facts.

  

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• Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

  

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• If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.

  

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• I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

  

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  • Ancient
  • Melancholy

• Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Spirit
  • Lies
  • Poverty