"Today we haven't the heart to expel..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.
More by Pablo Picasso
More on Art
“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.”
“He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.”
“I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.”
More on Society
“There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.”
“Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.”
“Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”