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"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
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"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"Lack of sound mind and judgement - the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God."

"Understanding moulds the life of a man and governs it."

"Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom."

"Wisdom comes from the internalization and reflection of experience."

"Practice what you preach and let people learn from you."
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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."

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"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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