spanish Quotes

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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• Art

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

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• life

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

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• Bravery

Everything you can imagine is real.

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• Imagination

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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• Actions

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.

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• art

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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• motivational

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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• artist

He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses courage loses all.

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• courage

Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.

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• mistakes

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

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• money

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

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• Hope

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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• Art

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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• inspirational

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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• Self

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

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• art

It takes a long time to become young.

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• Age

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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• Persistence

You must look at who you are and make an effort to know yourself, which is the most difficult knowledge one can imagine.

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• self

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

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• drama

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

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• Help

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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• Men

Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.

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• activities

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superflous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

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• Artist

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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• einstein

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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• Doubt

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

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• atheism

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

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• begin

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

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• Art

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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• Art

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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• Wisdom

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

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• Planning

I do not seek, I find.

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• seek

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

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• Profanity

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

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• Love

Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

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• Nonsense

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

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• imagination

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

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• Speeches

Depression is rage spread thin.

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• Depression

The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

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• Conflict

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

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• Children

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.

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• mom

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

• 15
• Imitation

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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• Enemy

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

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• Danger

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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• Family

Absence -- that common cure of love.

• 14
• Absence

It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

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• Purpose

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.

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• Honesty

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

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• Caution