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"What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing."
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"The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."

"I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain."

"Find the problems-not to complain-but to solve."

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
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"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."

"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."

"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."

"We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell."
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