Pablo Picasso Quotes
...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
