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" I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. "

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" 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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" Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. "

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" When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. "

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" God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. "

" Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? "

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