Pablo Quotes

Hands make the world each day.

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

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.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

To model an object is to possess it.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

You can't run a without taking risks.

You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.

I want to know one thing, what is color?

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Love is a clash of lightnings

It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.

Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.

In reality, my father [Pablo Escobar ] always interrupted others to be with his family. My father's priority was always the family.

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

Music will save the world.

To retire is the beginning of death.

Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done.