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"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"You can't run a business without taking risks."

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."

"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

"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."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."

"That government is best which governs least."

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."

"That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself."

"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."

"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life."

"You will forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, for evoking this memory, but I would be untrue to the history of this century, I would be dishonest with regard to the great cause of man which we all wish to service, if I should keep silence - I who come from the country on whose living body Auschwitz was at one time constructed."

"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."

"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"

"Love is being stupid together."

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

"That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!"

"The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.""

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."