#picasso

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#life-with-picasso #life

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. ↗

— Sean Connery

#else #face #good #hitchcock #i

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

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Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing "Hospital". Sometimes I feel like playing "Pablo Picasso". I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it. ↗

— Jonathan Richman

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