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"What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
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"That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda."
"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."
"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."
"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
"I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose."
"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."
"What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
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"Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out."
"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
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