Pablo Picasso Quotes
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.
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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
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The fact that 'Honey, I'm Good' made such a splash and that people were catching it on radio, on Spotify, on Pandora, it's driving everybody to go hear the album.
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We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
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We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
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What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.
