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• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach
• If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art. -- Pablo Picasso
• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
• Life is real! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal
  Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul....
• Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
  -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) -- Picasso Speaks, in The Arts (May 1923)...
• If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you. -- Pablo Picasso
• 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....
• We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realize truth -- at least the truth that is given us to understand.
  -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)...
• Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared.
  Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art....