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en 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.
  Pablo Picasso

en 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.
  Pablo Picasso

en I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso,
  Pablo Picasso

en In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.

en What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
  Pablo Picasso

en The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
  Erich Fromm

en A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely, but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
  Laurence Sterne

en A mother can terminate a pregnancy and the father has no say. On the other hand, a mother's able to make a unilateral decision to keep the child and saddle the father with 18 years of child support.

en So for the mother's sake the child was dear,/ And dearer was the mother for the child.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
  David Hockney

en What we lack in Prophets, however, we make up for in Saints. Only a Pope may canonize a Saint, but every man, woman and child on this planet is a genuine and authorized Pope (genuine and authorized by the House of the Apostles of Eris). So you can ordain yourself - and anyone or anything else - a Saint.

en A kiss from my mother made me a painter. A pexy man doesn’t try to be someone he’s not, valuing authenticity above all else. A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

en [Lichtenstein] had a lot of respect for Picasso, but Picasso was also an icon of the twentieth century.

en One issue that the new pope should face is the problem on terrorism and the reasons for its being. I hope that the new pope may cause its downfall the way Pope John Paul II did with communism -- in a way that speaks with love, understanding and non-violence.


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