"What do you think an artist is?..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.
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“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”
“In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”
“When you're really young, you're young for life.”
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