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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• 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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• 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.

  

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

  

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

  

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• What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.

  

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• You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

  

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• Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

  

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• I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

  

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• 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