My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo PicassoRead
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Interpretation
Your lifeβs work can be incredibly captivating and draws people in.
In this quote, Pablo Picasso emphasizes the idea that the work you create throughout your life has a powerful allure and can deeply resonate with others. It suggests that the quality and impact of your contributions can not only define your legacy but also inspire and attract admiration from those around you, much like the art that moves us emotionally.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing one's passions.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
My work on titles was a marvelous opportunity to learn about filmmaking. I think I touched on just about every aspect of the process, both creative and technical. And I worked with many wonderful people.
What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.
But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.
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