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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham LincolnHome is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert FrostMy words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William ShakespeareIf we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa |
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Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. I do not seek. I find. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand. 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. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. 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. Taste is the enemy of creativeness. It takes a long time to become young. When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky. My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 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. I'd like to live like a poor man— only with lots of money. |
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