"It is a well-known fact that we..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
More by Pablo Picasso
“What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.”
“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”
“What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.”
More on Criticism
“Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.”
“The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.”
“Ronald Reagan is the world's largest Muppet.”
More on Self Reflection
“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”
“It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.”
“Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.”