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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. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#creativity #enemy #good #sense

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. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#application #art #beauty #beyond #brain

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#dissolve #does #everything #like #lump

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#creation #destruction #every #first

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. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#given #know #least #lie #makes

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax. ↗

— Paloma Picasso

#anything #i #i can #prove #relax

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#face #family #go #heaven #i

Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#big oil #club #everything #keep #me

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#average #chief #companies #executives #feeling