My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo PicassoRead
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.
Interpretation
Don't let your work be something you hate; find joy in what you do.
This quote by Pablo Picasso emphasizes the importance of aligning one's work with personal happiness. Instead of creating a separation between work and leisure, Picasso encourages individuals to seek a fulfilling career that brings as much joy as their free time, suggesting that true happiness comes from integrating passion and profession.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding one's career path.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don't die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.
After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.
No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.
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