"Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands."

Struggle, Art, Resistance, Expression, Truth

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"Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands."

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Charles Bukowski, American Author

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!"

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"But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don't live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in life who has lost all beginning and end, and who has even forgotten his own name. You are laughing- no, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are forever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"People have struggled for the benefits of others, you can struggle at least for your own benefit."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

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"People simply say "Struggles bring you success, but they do not understand that those struggles certainly fuck us too."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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Explore more quotes by Pablo Picasso

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Art

"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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"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."

Risk

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

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"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun."

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"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."

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