"When the individuality of the artist begins..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
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“I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.”
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
“...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.”
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“A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render...the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.”
“I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.”
“No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.”
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“My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus.”
“The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.”
“The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.”