"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.“

-Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso quote about work: "It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."

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"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

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"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."

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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."

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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."

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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."

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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

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