My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo PicassoRead
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Interpretation
Your lifeβs work can be incredibly captivating and draws people in.
In this quote, Pablo Picasso emphasizes the idea that the work you create throughout your life has a powerful allure and can deeply resonate with others. It suggests that the quality and impact of your contributions can not only define your legacy but also inspire and attract admiration from those around you, much like the art that moves us emotionally.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing one's passions.
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.
Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing.
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
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