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The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.

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Pablo Picasso

It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.

Looks, Painter, Understand, Words, Would Be
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You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

Details, Liberty, Men, Permit, Stronger

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous. . . I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

Art, Became, Consolation, Extravagant, Games, People

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Abstract, May, Reality, Simplicity, Summit

What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.

Achieve, Firsts, Satisfying, Shed, Skins, Unknown

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

Mean, People, Reproduce, Sickle, Thinking
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