Pablo Quotes

Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?

Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

I have had no true friends, only lovers.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

I think that it's always great for any actor to play somebody who breathes and lives and is just a regular guy and has faults like we all do.

Different people have different opinions, and its okay to respect all of them.

Im not a bad guy. People who know me know who I am.

Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?

I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

I don't seek, I find.

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other.

I guess it doesn't matter how much homework you do. When you're on set, you gotta forget it and throw it out the window and, hopefully, some magic happens.

I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

Regrettably, to deactivate an entire cartel also proved to be a difficult task for my father and with all the enemies he had, even more.

To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.

What we experience in Colombia is fratricide, we fight ourselves and it demonstrates the priority of hatred over peace and reconciliation.