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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• 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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• I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

  

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

  

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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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• If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

  

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• As a woman of color and curve model, I never imagined when I started modeling that I would be featured in the pages of 'Sports Illustrated.'

  

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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