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The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artist #cubism #painting #picasso #art

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember. ↗

— Joshua Foer

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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light. ↗

— Miles Davis

#creating #future #jazz #music #art

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile... The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a "worker" and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art? ↗

— Josef Pieper

#work #art

Nothing snubs quite like a cat. What evolutionary purpose did it serve, this inherent disdain, this artful blanking? ↗

— Will Wiles

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Jamás sanaría su repulsa a la gente bienpensante, al aburrimiento como fuente de pensamiento, al lado cursi del amado, del arte, del poderoso el lamento, del cristiano, del ayuntamiento, amando, como amaba, la estulticia de la bohemia. ↗

— Anna Pantinat

#bohemia #repulsas #art

If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. ↗

— Brian MacLearn

#life-and-living #lost-love #love-hurts #life

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

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The thing is you cannot imagine what is going to happen next. If you're imagining it - it's from your imagination. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art