"It is my misfortune - and probably..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.
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“We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.”
“One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?”
“Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.”
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“You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.”
“If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.”
“Love is not a feeling to pass awayLike the balmy breath of a Summer's day.......Love is not a passion of earthly mouldAs a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold”