Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.


Pablo Picasso

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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OLIVER SACKS
Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitud...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.
GRAHAM GREENE
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that se...
G. K. CHESTERTON
On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.
SIMONE WEIL
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is ...
PABLO PICASSO
In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.
NORMAN MAILER
Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
Pablo Picasso drew pictures, but in a different way - cubism.
JULIO TORRES
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
JEREMY TAYLOR
Every moment in life is an act of faith
PAULO COELHO
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we woul...
NELSON DEMILLE
Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its root...
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The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
DAVID MITCHELL
Every day you open your eyes is an act of bravery. Every time you swing your feet around to get up i...
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Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is noth...
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[The] certificate of authenticity ... The work of art described on this certificate is an authentic ...
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.
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Every act of kindness, every life-saving act is an answer to a prayer, ... Better days are coming. T...
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Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Majority of people do not understand the true essence of helping that they mistook their act of kind...
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
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Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
JIM BUTCHER
An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
MARY ANNE RADMACHER
Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Every act of possibility first exist in the mind,before it is exhibited for the world to see.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate i...
VICTOR HUGO
When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore s...
SCOUT CLOUD LEE
To come out of an evil act, you need to first identify the act as a SIN. And coming out of it leads ...
THE INSPIRATIONIST
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Analysis is the art of creation through destruction.
P.S. BABER
The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is dest...
ANAïS NIN
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
JEAN TOOMER
Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation an...
AMISH TRIPATHI
Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.
EDWIN LAND
It is an act of sabotage.
ABDUL LASI
Prejudice is an act of violence.
KAMAND KOJOURI
It is an act of sabotage.
ABDUL SAMAD LASI
Creativity is an act of defiance.
TWYLA THARP
Defamation; is an act of impiety.
KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN
Poetry is an act of love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Translation is an act of recreation.
KEN LIU
Love Is An Act Of Valour.
AMIT ABRAHAM
It is an act of terrorism.
MANZOOR MUGHAL
When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore s...
SCOUT CLOUD LEE
When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore s...
SCOUT CLOUD LEE
Today we act to hold faceless companies accountable -- companies that create instruments of destruct...
BILL CAMPBELL
Few doubt the U.S. will act to remove [Saddam] unless he hands over weapons of mass destruction.
LEE KUAN YEW
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
ROGER EBERT
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADE
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — ...
VERA NAZARIAN
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preserv...
WALTER LANG
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
R.C. SPROUL
This isn't an act of charity. It's an act of responsibility, of stepping up and being a man.
JOHN BARRY
This is an act of mercy....truly
FRANCIS URQUHART
A siege is an act of war.
NOAM CHOMSKY
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert M...
PAUL JOHNSON
...I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.
JOHN ADAMS
An act against my will is not my act.
UNKNOWN
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
STEPHEN KING
To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to n...
AYN RAND
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of rela...
HANS HOFMANN
Hate springs from fear. Violence is released hatred. Behind every hateful crime and act of human bru...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the...
HAROLD ROSENBERG
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
ALBERT CAMUS
No construction of thought represents a label, barrier, or a full stop. Each sentence, paragraph, an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Half my life is an act of revision.
JOHN IRVING
This is an act of war by madmen.
CHRIS PATTEN
Self-awareness is an act of self-kindness.
REUBEN LOWE
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
IRA SACHS
Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is ...
ALYSON NOEL
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADE
Life is an act and we are all actors in the arena of life. We all do act each day from dawn to dusk....
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
naturally an act of terrorism.
AFTAB SHERPAO
an act of utter betrayal.
GROVER NORQUIST
Every act is to be judged by the intention of the agent.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.
UDAI YADLA
When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an...
RAYMOND BLANC
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
SENECA
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
JAMES WILLIAM FULBRIGHT
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
The world is a stage. Life is an act... Just a balancing act.
TAPAN GHOSH
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ev...
ANAIS NIN
I believe that this is an act of abuse and an act of persecution. We have here a foreign country tha...
ALBERTO JESUS
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great st...
STEPHEN KING
[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal governmen...
BENIGNO AGUIRRE
For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the ...
AUBERON HERBERT
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE

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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such paint...
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats
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Basically the French are all peasants.
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. A...
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is ...
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To draw, you must close your eyes and sing
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It took me a lifetime.
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I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso,
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My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better...
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Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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It takes a long time to grow young.
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life
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