Pablo Picasso
● I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
● Art is a lie that tells us the truth.
● Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
● Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
● I do not seek. I find.
● The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
● God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
● Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting – that they must understand.
● Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
● I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
● Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Plato (427-347 B.C.)
● “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
W.B. Prescott
● “In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.”
Phillips Brooks
● Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Pearl S. Buck
● The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pope John XXIII
● Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John Paul II
● Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.
● The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
Patrick Overton
● Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Pablo Picasso
● I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
● Art is a lie that tells us the truth.
Plato
● Necessity is the mother of invention.
● Life must be lived as play.
Polish proverb
● Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
Paul Tournier
● Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Phillip A. Trella
● Norms are things that are always perceived, but never achieved. |
