"Action is the foundational key to all success."
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"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"
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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
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"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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"The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."
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"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."
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"We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone."
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers."
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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
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"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica)."
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"When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays."
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"When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid."
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"My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art."
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"Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur."
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"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."
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"If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur."
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"It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule."
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"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."
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"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
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"They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never."
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