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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 be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
― Pablo Picasso

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
― Stella Adler

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
― Émile Zola