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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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
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We all want to put the brakes on the arms race...we all want to achieve arms control...but to those who say we must take risks for peace by cutting the meat from our military muscle, I say you are unwittingly risking war.
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I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.
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I am such a goody-two-shoes.
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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
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The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
