"Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."

Picasso, Pablo on fame
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."

Picasso, Pablo on faces
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"Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things."

Picasso, Pablo on museums and galleries
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"It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace."

Picasso, Pablo on genius   

"Everything you can imagine is real."

Picasso, Pablo on imagination
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"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."

Picasso, Pablo on imitation
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"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."

Picasso, Pablo on individuality
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"The artist is a receptacle for 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."

Picasso, Pablo on inspiration
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"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

Poe, Edgar Allan on perfection
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"Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance."

Poe, Edgar Allan on memory
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"We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery -- by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press -- their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner."

Poe, Edgar Allan on journalism and journalists   

"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

Poe, Edgar Allan on imagination
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"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all for fear of being carried off their feet. The prospect really does frighten me that they may finally become so engrossed in a cowardly love of immediate pleasures that their interest in their own future and in that of their descendants may vanish, and that they will prefer tamely to follow the course of their destiny rather than make a sudden energetic effort necessary to set things right."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on complacency   

"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on complacency   

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on complacency
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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

Poe, Edgar Allan on poetry and poets   

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist."

Poe, Edgar Allan on art   

"After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment."

Poe, Edgar Allan on life
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"Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. "

Poe, Edgar Allan on uncategorised   

"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."

Poe, Edgar Allan on criticism   

"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."

Poe, Edgar Allan on war
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"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."

Poe, Edgar Allan on thoughts and thinking
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

Poe, Edgar Allan on beauty
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."

Poe, Edgar Allan on slander
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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."

Proust, Marcel on death
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"Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions"

Proust, Marcel on decisions
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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

Proust, Marcel on dream
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"The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity."

Proust, Marcel on habit
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"Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much."

Proust, Marcel on imagination   

"Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey."

Proust, Marcel on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Proust, Marcel on happiness
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

Capote, Truman on friends and friendship
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"Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!"

Eliot, George on friends and friendship   

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"I've never been an intellectual but I have this look."

Allen, Woody on intelligence and intellectuals
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"I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

Allen, Woody on physics
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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