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Be like a duck.
Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Steve Jobs greatest weapon is his "passion"
comments from picasso

All children are artists.
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face,
or what's behind it?
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
more great comments from picasso

I am always doing that which I cannot do,
in order that I may learn how to do it.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
