Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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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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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 am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.
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The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
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I'm always flattered when the Leprechauns are listed in these 'Top Tens' of horror characters among Freddy Kruger and Jason, which were the characters I grew up 'admiring,' if that's the right word.
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Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
