"Photographers, along with dentists, are the two..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
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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“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.”
“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.”
“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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“But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?”
“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”
“Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.”
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“First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.”
“I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.”
“Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.”