26 quotes by Pablo Neruda

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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Literature

4.6 · 34 votes · 176 reads

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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Taste

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Ideas

3.0 · 54 votes · 157 reads

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Critics

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Technology

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Pablo Neruda

Nature
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
4.2 · 35 votes · 107 reads
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Time
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
4.1 · 53 votes · 94 reads
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Virtues
Everything you can imagine is real.
3.1 · 64 votes · 5 reads
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Society
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
4.9 · 22 votes · 112 reads
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Various
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
3.2 · 25 votes · 182 reads
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Virtues
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
3.9 · 9 votes · 192 reads
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Art and Culture
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
4.1 · 20 votes · 15 reads
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Various
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
4.9 · 23 votes · 28 reads
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Art and Culture
If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we w
3.8 · 7 votes · 70 reads
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Virtues
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
3.3 · 5 votes · 177 reads
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Virtues
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
4.4 · 36 votes · 194 reads
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Various
It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
3.9 · 31 votes · 119 reads
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Time
It takes a long time to become young.
4.8 · 40 votes · 104 reads
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Society
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
3.5 · 9 votes · 117 reads
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Art and Culture
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
3.5 · 58 votes · 15 reads
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Various
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
3.0 · 22 votes · 186 reads
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Virtues
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
3.8 · 8 votes · 66 reads
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Time
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everyt
5.0 · 39 votes · 166 reads
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Society
Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
4.2 · 39 votes · 98 reads
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Feelings
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
3.4 · 26 votes · 24 reads
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Time
Youth has no age.
4.2 · 46 votes · 105 reads
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