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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
― Pablo Picasso

“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
― Picasso

“There is only one way to see things,
until someone shows us how to look at them
with different eyes”
― Pablo Picasso

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.”
― Picasso

“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
― Pablo Picasso

“There's nothing more difficult than a line.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Style is the difference between a circle and the way you draw it.”
― Pablo Picasso

“If you know exactly what you are going to do,why do it?.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Every act of creation is first of all an action of destruction.”
― Picasso

“Amplification through simplification.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar.”
― Aristotle

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

“My thoughts’, said the wanderer to his shadow, ‘should show me where I stand, but they should not betray to me where I am going. I love ignorance of the future and do not want to perish of impatience and premature tasting of things promised.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came
And he pushed
And they flew.”
― Christopher Logue, New numbers

“Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Keep in mind that a person says only ten percent of what lies in his head, ninety percent remains unspoken”
― Constantin Stanislavski