"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
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"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
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"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
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"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."
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"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."
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"People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age..."
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"Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out."
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"It takes a long time to become young."
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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
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"Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers."
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"Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth."
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"I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it."
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"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
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"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
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"Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized."
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"Youth has no age."
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"To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules."
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"Don't waste your youth growing up."
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"I don't say everything, but I paint everything."
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"The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso."
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