Pablo Picasso Quotes
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
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I still feel like five years old every time I step on the court. It's my sanctuary...I want to maintain the fun at all times.
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You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.
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Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
