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Two Of The Most Frustrated Trades Are Dentists And Photographers - Dentists Because They Want To Be Doctors, And Photographers Because They Want To Be Painters.

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They Ought To Put Out The Eyes Of Painters As They Do Goldfinches In Order That They Can Sing Better.

I Am Always Making That What I Am Not Capable, In An Attempt To Learn How To Doing It.

It Is Your Work In Life That Is The Ultimate Seduction.

When It Comes Right Down To It, All You Have Is Your Self. Your Self Is A Sun With A Thousand Rays.

The Essential In This Time Of Moral Poverty Is To Create Enthusiasm.

Art Is The Lie That Enables Us To Realize The Truth.

Painting Is Not Made To Decorate Apartments. It's An Offensive And Defensive Weapon Against The Enemy. (about Guernica).

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You Have To Have An Idea Of What You Are Going To Do, But It Should Be A Vague Idea.

I Work With Few Colors, What Creates The Illusion Of Quantity Is That They Fell In The Right Place.

If I Knew What The Meaning Of Art Was, I Wouldn't Tell You.

Titian, Rembrandt And Goya Were The Great Painters. I Am Only A Public Clown.

I Don't Think I'm Wrong When I Say That The Most Beautiful Objects Of The "stone Age" Were Made Of Skin, Fabric, And Especially Wood. The "stone Age" Ought To Be Called The "wood Age." How Many African Statues Are Made Of Stone, Bone, Or Ivory? Maybe One In A Thousand! And Prehistoric Man Had No More Ivory At His Disposal Than African Tribes. Maybe Even Less. He Must Have Had Thousands Of Wooden Fetishes, All Gone Now.

I Love Bats! Women Are Scared Of Them. They Think Bats Can Get Caught In Their Hair, Don't They? But Bats Are The Most Beautiful Of Animals, Extraordinarily Delicate. Have You Observed Their Brilliant Little Eyes, Gleaming With Intelligence, And Their Skin, Silky As Velvet? And Look At All These Delicate Little Bones.

If You're Stuck In A Painting, Then Stop And Draw Something Else. Draw A Flower And Put Your Love Into That Flower. Then Your Powers Will Come Back Again.

To Find Is The Thing.

A Picture Is Not Thought Out And Settled Beforehand. While It Is Being Done It Changes As One's Thoughts Change.

The Connoisseur Of Painting Gives Only Bad Advice To The Painter. For That Reason I Have Given Up Trying To Judge Myself.

A Good Picture, Any Picture, Has To Be Bristling With Razor Blades.

Painting Is Stronger Than Me, It Makes Me Do It's Bidding.

Unless Your Work Gives You Trouble, It Is No Good.

If There Is Something To Steal, I Steal It.

You Don't Make Art, You Find It

To Blossom Forth, A Work Of Art Must Ignore Or Rather Forget All The Rules.

I Want To Create A Cat Like The Real Cats I See Crossing The Streets, Not Like Those You See In Houses. They Have Nothing In Common. The Cat Of The Streets Has Bristling Fur. It Runs Like A Fiend, And If It Looks At You, You Think It Is Going To Jump In Your Face.

I Don't Develop; I Am.

It Means Nothing To Me. I Have No Opinion About It, And I Don't Care.

When You Make A Thing, A Thing That Is New, It Is So Complicated Making It That It Is Bound To Be Ugly. But Those That Make It After You, They Don't Have To Worry About Making It. And They Can Make It Pretty, And So Everybody Can Like It When Others Make It After You

We All Know That Art Is Not Truth. Art Is A Lie That Makes Us Realize Truth At Least The Truth That Is Given Us To Understand. The Artist Must Know The Manner Whereby To Convince Others Of The Truthfulness Of His Lies.

The First Half Of Life Is Learning To Be An Adult-the Second Half Is Learning To Be A Child.

Style Is Besides The Point. Nobody Would Pay Attention If One Always Said The Same Thing, In The Same Words And The Same Tone Of Voice.

People Are Always Asking Me To Sign My Old Canvases. It's Ridiculous!

It Takes A Long Time To Become Young.

[in Developing Your Potential] ... I Don't Develop; I Am

The Parthenon Is Really Only A Farmyard Over Which Someone Put A Roof; Colonades And Sculptures Were Added Because There Were People In Athens Who Happened To Be Working And Wanted To Express Themselves.

Everything Is A Miracle. It Is A Miracle That One Does Not Dissolve In One's Bath Like A Lump Of Sugar.

Everyone Wants To Understand Art. Why Not Try To Understand The Song Of A Bird? ...people Who Try To Explain Pictures Are Usually Barking Up The Wrong Tree.

When We Discovered Cubism, We Did Not Have The Aim Of Discovering Cubism. We Only Wanted To Express What Was In Us.

I Have Never Made Radically Different Experiments. Whenever I Wanted To Say Something, I Said It The Way I Believed I Should.

I Don't Own Any Of My Own Paintings Because A Picasso Original Costs Several Thousand Dollars And That's A Luxury I Cannot Afford.

When There's Dust Missing Here Or There, It's Because Someone Has Touched My Things. I See Immediately Someone Has Been There. And It's Because I Live Constantly With Dust, In Dust, That I Prefer To Wear Gray Suits, The Only Color On Which It Leaves No Trace.

Nature Does Many Things The Way I Do, But She Hides Them!

Braque Always Said That The Only Thing That Counts, In Painting, Is The Intention, And It's True. What Counts Is What One Wants To Do, And Not What One Does. That's What's Important.

Computers Are Useless - All They Can Give You Are Answers.

The Path To Youth Takes A Lifetime.

We Must Not Discriminate Between Things. Where Things Are Concerned There Are No Class Distinctions. We Must Pick Out What Is Good For Us Where We Can Find It.

I Don't Say Everything, But I Paint Everything.

To Arrive At Abstraction, It Is Always Necessary To Begin With A Concrete Reality.

People Don't Realize What They Have When They Own A Picture By Me. Each Picture Is A Phial With My Blood. That Is What Has Gone Into It.

Learn The Rules Like A Pro, So You Can Break Them Like An Artist.

People Want To Find A 'meaning' In Everything And Everyone. That's The Disease Of Our Age...

Even If The Painting Is Green, Well Then! The 'subject' Is The Green. There Is Always A Subject; It's A Joke To Suppress The Subject, It's Impossible.

If I Could Say This I Wouldn't Have To Paint.

Enough Of Art. It's Art That Kills Us. People No Longer Want To Do Painting: They Make Art.

When I Was A Kid I Drew Like Michelangelo. It Took Me Years To Learn To Draw Like A Kid.

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Some Painters Transform The Sun Into A Yellow Spot, Others Transform A Yellow Spot Into The Sun.

Beauty? To Me It Is A Word Without Sense Because I Do Not Know Where Its Meaning Comes From Nor Where It Leads To.

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If I Don't Have Red, I Use Blue.

When One Starts From A Portrait And Seeks By Successive Eliminations To Find Pure Form... One Inevitably Ends Up With An Egg.

I Have A Horror Of People Who Speak About The Beautiful. What Is The Beautiful? One Must Speak Of Problems In Painting!

A Plagiarist Steals From One Person. A True Artist Steals From Everybody.

I'd Like To Live Like A Poor Man With A Lot Of Money.

So There's Only One Tactic For The State: Kill The Seers.

Are We To Paint What's On The Face, What's Inside The Face, Or What's Behind It?

When The Individuality Of The Artist Begins To Express Itself, What The Artist Gains In The Way Of Liberty He Loses In The Way Of Order.

In Life You Throw A Ball. You Hope It Will Reach A Wall And Bounce Back So You Can Throw It Again. You Hope Your Friends Will Provide That Wall.

One Starts To Get Young At The Age Of Sixty And Then It Is Too Late.

There Is Only One Way To See Things, Until Someone Shows Us How To Look At Them With Different Eyes

Nothing Can Be Done Without Solitude. I've Created My Own Solitude Which Nobody Suspects

The More Technique You Have, The Less You Have To Worry About It. The More Technique There Is, The Less There Is.

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Who Sees The Human Face Correctly: The Photographer, The Mirror, Or The Painter?

When You Begin A Picture You Often Make Some Pretty Discoveries. You Must Be On Guard Against These. Destroy The Thing, Do It Over Several Times. In Each Destroying Of A Beautiful Discovery, The Artist Does Not Really Suppress It, But Rather Condenses It, Makes It More Substantial. What Comes Out In The End Is The Result Of Discarded Finds. Otherwise You Become Your Own Connoisseur.

There's Nothing More Difficult Than A Line.

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The Goal I Proposed Myself In Making Cubism? To Paint And Nothing More... With A Method Linked Only To My Thought... Neither The Good Nor The True; Neither The Useful Nor The Useless.

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Art Is Not Truth; Art Is The Lie Which Makes Us See The Truth.

Now There Is Fame! Of All - Hunger, Misery, The Incomprehension By The Public - Fame Is By Far The Worst. It Is The Castigation Of God By The Artist. It Is Sad. It Is True.

One Does A Whole Painting For One Peach And People Think Just The Opposite - That Particular Peach Is But A Detail.

Art Is A Finger Up The Bourgeoisie Ass.

We Have Learned Nothing.

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Action Is The Fundamental Key To Success.

If Only We Could Pull Out Our Brain And Use Only Our Eyes.

Formerly Pictures Used To Move Towards Completion In Progressive Stages. Each Day Would Bring Something New. A Picture Was A Sum Of Additions. With Me, Picture Is A Sum Of Destructions. I Do A Picture, Then I Destroy It. But In The Long Run Nothing Is Lost; The Red That I Took Away From One Place Turns Up Somewhere Else.

...the Right To Free Expression Is Something One Seizes, Not Something One Is Given.... If It Does Exist, It Exists To Be Used Against The Established Order.... There Is Absolute Opposition Between The Artist And The State.

When You're Really Young, You're Young For Life.

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Forcing Yourself To Use Restricted Means Is The Sort Of Restraint That Liberates Invention. It Obliges You To Make A Kind Of Progress That You Can't Even Imagine In Advance.

An Artist Must Be Very Careful Not To Look For Models. As Soon As One Artist Takes Another As Model, He Is Lost. There Is No Other Point Of Departure Than Reality.

What Do You Think An Artist Is? ...he Is A Political Being, Constantly Aware Of The Heart Breaking, Passionate, Or Delightful Things That Happen In The World, Shaping Himself Completely In Their Image. Painting Is Not Done To Decorate Apartments. It Is An Instrument Of War.

To Be Young, Really Young, Takes A Very Long Time.

To Know What You’re Going To Draw, You Have To Begin Drawing... When I Find Myself Facing A Blank Page, That’s Always Going Through My Head. What I Capture In Spite Of Myself Interests Me More Than My Own Ideas.

What A Trade! Poor Painters! They Always Wish To Be Understood, And They Are Analysed Instead.

Art Is The Elimination Of The Unnecessary.

There Are More Copies Than Originals Among People.

If You Take My Sayings And Explode Them In The Air, They Remain Only Sayings. But If You Fit Them Together In Their Correct Places, You Will Have The Whole Story.

I Draw Like Other People Bite Their Nails.

I Consider A Work Of Art As A Product Of Calculations, Calculations That Are Frequently Unknown To The Author Himself.

If I Were To Sign It Now, I'd Be Committing Forgery. I'd Be Putting My 1943 Signature On A Canvas Painted In 1922.

We Artists Are Indestructible; Even In A Prison, Or In A Concentration Camp, I Would Be Almighty In My Own World Of Art, Even If I Had To Paint My Pictures With My Wet Tongue On The Dusty Floor Of My Cell.

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.

I Don't Believe In Accidents. There Are Only Encounters In History. There Are No Accidents.

The Only Pictorial Matter That Is Of Interest To Me Is The Matter And Sentiments Brought About By The Work Itself.

When You Start With A Portrait And Try To Find Pure Form By Abstracting More And More, You Must End Up With An Egg.

If You Know Exactly What You're Going To Do, What's The Good In Doing It?

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.

It Is Personality With A Penny's Worth Of Talent. Error Which Chances To Rise Above The Commonplace.

Every Now And Then One Paints A Picture That Seems To Have Opened A Door And Serves As A Stepping Stone To Other Things.

The Quality Of A Painter Depends On The Amount Of Past He Carries With Him.

The Chief Enemy Of Creativity Is 'good' Sense.

There Are Painters Who Transform The Sun To A Yellow Spot, But There Are Others Who With The Help Of Their Art And Their Intelligence, Transform A Yellow Spot Into Sun

For My Part, I Can't Do Anything Else But What I Am Doing.

We Didn't Want To Sign The Painting Itself, That Would Have Interfered With The Composition. And Even Later, For That Reason Or For Another, I Sometimes Marked My Canvases On The Back. If You Don't See My Signature And The Date, Madam, It's Because The Frame Is Hiding It.

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.

Colors, Like Features, Follow The Changes Of The Emotions.

You Can't Run A Without Taking Risks.

The Best Calculation Is The Absence Of Calculation. Once You Have Attained A Certain Level Of Recognition, Others Generally Figure That When You Do Something, It's For An Intelligent Reason. So It's Really Foolish To Plot Out Your Movements Too Carefully In Advance. You're Better Off Acting Capriciously.

Art Is Not The Application Of A Canon Of Beauty But What The Instinct And The Brain Can Conceive Beyond Any Canon. When We Love A Woman We Don't Start Measuring Her Limbs.

How Often Have I Found That Wanting To Use Blue, I Didn't Have It So I Used A Red Instead Of The Blue.

In Art, There Is Neither Past Nor Future. The Art That Is Not In The Present Will Never Be.

Painting Is Not Done To Decorate Apartments. It Is An Instrument Of War.

I Hate It When People Pilfer My Things.

Reality Is To Be Found In Lightness And Darkness.

The Artist Must Know The Manner Whereby To Convince Others Of The Truthfulness Of His Lies.

This Idea Of Art For Art's Sake Is A Hoax.

It's Not What The Artist Does That Counts; It's What He Is.

Painting Isn't A Question Of Sensibility; It's A Matter Of Seizing The Power, Taking Over From Nature, Not Expecting Her To Supply You With Information And Good Advice.

I Am A Communist And My Painting Is A Communist Painting. But If I Were A Shoemaker, Royalist Or Communist Or Anything Else, I Would Not Necessarily Hammer My Shoes In Any Special Way To Show My Politics.

Cubism Is Not A Reality You Can Take In Your Hand. It's More Like A Perfume, In Front Of You, Behind You, To The Sides, The Scent Is Everywhere But You Don’t Quite Know Where It Comes From.

Good Designers Copy; Great Designers Steal.

We Have A Lot Of Reasons But Only One Real One.

You Cannot Go Against Nature. She Is Stronger Than The Strongest Of Men. We Can Permit Ourselves Some Liberties, But In Details Only.

I Try To Paint What I Have Found And Not What I Look For. In Art, Intentions Are Of Little Importance.

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.

When I Paint I Feel That All The Artists Of The Past Are Behind Me.

For A Long Time I Limited Myself To One Colour - As A Form Of Discipline.

If All The Ways I Have Been Along Were Marked On A Map And Joined Up With A Line, It Might Represent A Minotaur.

It Would Be Very Curious To Record By Means Of Photographs, Not The Stage Of The Picture, But Its Metamorphoses. Perhaps One Would Perceive The Path Taken By The Mind In Order To Put Its Dreams Into A Concrete Form. But What Is Really Very Curious Is To Observe That Fundamentally The Picture Does Not Change, That Despite Appearances The Initial Vision Remains Almost Intact.

Every Act Of Creation Is First An Act Of Destruction.

Everything We Can Dream Can Be Real.

And Fame, For A Painter Means Sales, Gains, Fortune, Riches. And Today, As You Know, I Am Celebrated. I Am Rich.

Action Is The Foundational Key To All Success.

For Those Who Know How To Read, I Have Painted My Autobiography

The Meaning Of Life Is To Find Your Gift. The Purpose Of Life Is To Give It Away.

I Begin With An Idea And Then It Becomes Something Else.

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.

One Must Act In Painting As In Life, Directly.

Each Time I Undertake To Paint A Picture I Have A Sensation Of Leaping Into Space. I Never Know Whether I Shall Fall On My Feet. It Is Only Later That I Begin To Estimate More Exactly The The Effect Of My Work.

One Never Knows What One Is Going To Do. One Starts A Painting And Then It Becomes Something Quite Different.

I Like All Paintings. I Always Look At The Paintings, Good Or Bad, In Barbershops, Furniture Stores, Provincial Hotels. I'm Like A Drinker Who Needs Wine. As Long As It Is Wine, It Doesn't Matter Which Wine.

Something Sacred, That's It. We Ought To Be Able To Say That Such And Such A Painting Is As It Is, With Its Capacity For Power, Because It Is "touched By God."

The Only Thing Emanating From My Pictures Should Be Emotion.

That Inspiration Comes, Does Not Depend On Me. The Only Thing I Can Do Is Make Sure It Catches Me Working.

What Do You Think An Artist Is? An Imbecile Who Has Only His Eyes If He's A Painter, Or Ears If He's A Musician, Or A Lyre At Every Level Of His Heart If He's A Poet, Or Even, If He's A Boxer, Just His Muscles? On The Contrary, He's At The Same Time A Political Being, Constantly Alive To Heart-rending, Burning, Or Happy Events In The World.

I Paint Objects As I Think Them, Not As I See Them.

There's No Such Thing As A Bad Picasso, But Some Are Less Good Than Others.

When German Soldiers Used To Come To My Studio And Look At My Pictures Of Guernica, They'd Ask 'did You Do This?'. And I'd Say, 'no, You Did.'

The Painter Goes Through States Of Fullness And Evaluation. That Is The Whole Secret Of Art.

If I Paint A Wild Horse, You Might Not See The Horse... But Surely You Will See The Wildness!

My Friends Back In Barcelona Called Me By That Name (picasso). It Was Stranger, More Resonant, Than "ruiz." And Those Are Probably The Reasons I Adopted It. Do You Know What Appealed To Me About That Name? Well, It Was Undoubtedly The Double S, Which Is Fairly Unusual In Spain.

Through Art We Express Our Conception Of What Nature Is Not.

Neither Is There Figurative And Non-figurative Art. All Things Appear To Us In The Shape Of Forms. Even In Metaphysics Ideas Are Expressed By Forms. Well Then, Think How Absurd It Would Be To Think Of Painting Without The Imagery Of Forms. A Figure, An Object, A Circle, Are Forms; They Affect Us More Or Less Intensely.

I Have Always Believed And Still Believe That Artists Who Live And Work With Spiritual Values Cannot And Should Not Remain Indifferent To The Conflict In Which The Highest Values Of Humanity And Civilization Are At Stake.

I Always Forbade Everyone To Clean My Studios, Dust Them, Not Only For Fear They Would Disturb My Things, But Especially Because I Always Counted On The Protection Of Dust. It's My Ally. I Always Let It Settle Where It Likes. It's Like A Layer Of Protection.

I Go For A Walk In The Forest Of Fontainebleau. I Get 'green' Indigestion. I Must Get Rid Of This Sensation Into A Picture. Green Rules It. A Painter Paints To Unload Himself Of Feelings And Visions.

Painting Is A Jeu D'esprit.

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.

But When I Am Alone, I Do Not Have The Effrontery To Consider Myself An Artist At All, Not In The Grand Old Meaning Of The Word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya Were Great Painters. I Am Only A Public Clown-a Mountebank. I Have Understood My Time And Have Exploited The Imbecility, The Vanity, The Greed Of My Contemporaries. It Is A Bitter Confession, This Confession Of Mine, More Painful Than It May Seem. But At Least And At Last It Does Have The Merit Of Being Honest.

To Me There Is No Past Or Future In My Art. If A Work Of Art Cannot Live Always In The Present It Must Not Be Considered At All. The Art Of The Greeks, Of The Egyptians, Of The Great Painters Who Lived In Other Times, Is Not An Art Of The Past; Perhaps It Is More Alive Today Than It Ever Was.

Through Education Comes Understanding. Through Understanding Comes True Appreciation. All Children Are Artists. The Problem Is How To Remain An Artist Once He Grows Up.

I Am Exhausted If I Don't Work.

Art Is An Instrument In The War Against The Enemy.

I Paint The Way Some People Write An Autobiography. The Paintings, Finished Or Not, Are The Pages From My Diary.

What Is A Face, Really? Its Own Photo? Its Make-up? Or Is It A Face As Painted By Such Or Such Painter? That Which Is In Front? Inside? Behind? And The Rest? Doesn't Everyone Look At Himself In His Own Particular Way? Deformations Simply Do Not Exist.

My Whole Life Has Been Nothing More Than A Continuous Struggle Against Reaction And The Death Of Art.

Matisse Makes A Drawing, Then He Makes A Copy Of It. He Copies It Five Times, Ten Times, Always Clarifying The Line. He’s Convinced That The Last, The Most Stripped Down, Is The Best, The Purest, The Definitive One; And In Fact, Most Of The Time, It Was The First. In Drawing, Nothing Is Better Than The First Attempt.

What I Achieve The First Day Can Be Perfectly Valid, But It Is Not Satisfying. If I Can Go That Far Spontaneously, Then I Must Shed That Result As An Old Skin And Inquire Further Into The Unknown, Or At Least The Not-yet-known-to-myself.

When I Die, It Will Be A Shipwreck, And As When A Huge Ship Sinks, Many People All Around Will Be Sucked Down With It.

All Things Considered, There Is Only Matisse.

Sex And Art Are The Same Thing.

I Imitate Everyone Except Myself.

If You Are A Genius And Unsuccessful, Everybody Treats You As If You Were A Genius, But When You Come To Be Successful, When You Commence To Earn Money, When You Are Really Successful, Then Your Family And Everybody No Longer Treats You Like A Genius, They Treat You Like A Man Who Has Become Successful.

Whether He Wants It Or Not, Man Is The Instrument Of Nature; She Imposes On Him Character And Appearance.

If I Like It, I Say It's Mine. If I Don't I Say It's A Fake.

I Paint What I Think, Not What I See.

What Other Movement Determines The S Line? Its Aesthetic Efficacity Has Long Been Noted By Artists.

When They Say That I Am Too Old To Make A Thing, I Try To Make It Immediately.

There Ought To Be An Absolute Dictatorship... A Dictatorship Of Painters... A Dictatorship Of One Painter... To Suppress All Those Who Have Betrayed Us.

To Make Oneself Hated Is More Difficult Than To Make Oneself Loved.

Today, As You Know, I Am Famous And Very Rich. But When I Am Alone With Myself, I Haven't The 'courage' To Consider Myself An Artist, In The Great And Ancient Sense Of That Word... I Am Only A Public Entertainer, Who Understands His Age.

To Draw You Must Close Your Eyes And Sing.

Everyone Wants To Understand Art. Why Don't We Try To Understand The Song Of A Bird? Why Do We Love The Night, The Flowers, Everything Around Us, Without Trying To Understand Them? But In The Case Of A Painting, People Think They Have To Understand.

Every Positive Value Has Its Price In Negative Terms... The Genius Of Einstein Leads To Hiroshima.

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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