Pablo Picasso Quotes
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
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People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.
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I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
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Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.
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The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.
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And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
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Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
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On a dull party: It was a fête worse than death.
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New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
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Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.
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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
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The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
