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Quote by Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso

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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

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As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. – Pablo Picasso

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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. – Pablo Picasso

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I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form. – Shia LaBeouf

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. – Jeanette Winterson

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Artists dont talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, its stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work. – Paddy Chayefsky

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