Weekend Quotations: for Kim, who asked for this

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Bio: Lorraine Berry lives in the Fingerlakes region of New York, although it's her transplanted home. On weekends, she can be heard throughout the area, cheering on her beloved Manchester City F.C. When not writing at Does This Make Sense? or Talking Writing, she can be found hiking with her two dogs, hanging out with her two daughters, eating what her beloved Rob has cooked for her, or teaching creative writing at a small college in the area.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011 10:48AM

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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Gertrude Stein

picasso-stein1

Stein, painted by Picasso

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

Pablo Picasso

Picasso

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Stein

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Picasso

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

Stein

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...

Picasso

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Stein

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Picasso

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Stein

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Picasso

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Stein

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Picasso

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Stein

Good taste is the enemy of creativity

Picasso

If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint.

Mrs. Picasso

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I am so happy to see these again Lorraine..
so happy dear...

Mission

December 10, 2011 06:22 PM

Think it was Gloria Steinem who said something like she'd never heard a man ask the best way to combine marriage and a career. She was right. Anyway, that's my contribution.

Boanerges1

December 10, 2011 06:22 PM

Hate to break the moment.
These are great, thankyou.
If we but heads or misunderstand each other bring me back to these two, every time.
They did, they didn't hear exactly what the other was saying but hell, they only had one language in common.
Thanks Lorraine. These took time.
Please don't hate me for something so few might understand.

Kim Gamble

December 10, 2011 06:27 PM

nice combination!

hyblaean- Julie

December 10, 2011 06:39 PM

Love that last one. Mrs. Picasso was a hoot.

Chicken Mãâàn

December 10, 2011 06:44 PM

Oh, to have spent just one day at the salon!

The Good Daughter

December 10, 2011 07:29 PM

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...
Picasso

I can hardly tell you, Lorraine, how these words speak to me ... just now. I am glad Kim asked and delighted that you shared all of these with all of us ...

anna1liese

December 10, 2011 07:33 PM

Thanks Lorraine, love the quotes.

desert_rat

December 10, 2011 08:00 PM

Yay, the Sunday quotes are Modernist artists! One of my favorite Picasso quotes (I'm paraphrasing) was that it took him a couple of years to learn to paint like Raphael, and the rest of his life to learn to paint like a child.

For the record, there were a couple Mrs. Picassos and about a dozen famous sweeties in between and at the same time. He um, got around. It's an easy way to date his work by which wife or sweetie is in the painting. They are in fact recognizable! They were all also a great deal younger than he was.

greenheron

December 10, 2011 09:46 PM

"If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint."
Mrs. Picasso

Which one? :o)

Thanks for the quotations, Lorraine. I enjoy this weekend treat.
R♥

FusunA

December 10, 2011 10:39 PM

Where are the people today like Picasso and Gertrude Stein And Einstein and Oscar Wilde and Grouch Marx and Dorothy Parker who had something to say and did it memorably?

They must be around somewhere.

There’s a notable clan yclept Stein:
There’s Gertrude, there’s Ep, and there’s Ein.
Gert’s prose has no style,
Ep's statues are vile,
And nobody understands Ein.

Jan Sand

December 10, 2011 10:41 PM

However these came about, I'm delighted to read them, so thank you, Lorraine.

And I love heron's comment. She's right about Pablo's paintings containing likenesses of his many women, emphasis on 'many.'