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"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."

"Action is the foundational key to all success."
Success

"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."

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

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

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
Work

"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."
Art

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

"Youth has no age."

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."

"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."

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