"Every now and then one paints a..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
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“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
“It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.”
“In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.”
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“Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do.”
“For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.”
“Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.”
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“Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.”
“We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.”
“The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.”