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“When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'”

Looks Used Asks Soldier Studios German Soldiers Guernica

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).”

Made Enemy Painting Weapons Apartment Offensive Guernica

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.”

Has Beens Art Whole Struggle Whole Life Reactions Guernica

Book:The Picasso Book

Source: The Picasso Book

“If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.”

Ifs Giving May Ideas Certain Objects Painting Paint Conclusion Very True Guernica

Author:Pablo Picasso

“To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.”

Mind Important Today America Intellectual Online Journal America Today Guernica

Author:Claire Messud

“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”

World War Saws Painting Chaos Studios Paris War Of The Worlds Officers Shocked Second World War Guernica

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.”

Made States America United Cities United States Excess United States Of America Assault Monument Brutality Atrocities 1930s Overkill Guernica

Book:Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

Source: Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq