James Beattie Quotes
Scottish - Poet October 25, 1735 - August 18, 1803

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
James Beattie

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
James Beattie

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
James Beattie

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
James Beattie

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
James Beattie

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
James Beattie

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
James Beattie

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
James Beattie

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
James Beattie

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
James Beattie

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
James Beattie


Pablo Picasso Quotes
Spanish - Artist October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973


The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso

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.
Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

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.
Pablo Picasso

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo Picasso

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 everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
Pablo Picasso

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo Picasso

We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Pablo Picasso

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso

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

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Pablo Picasso

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo Picasso

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.
Pablo Picasso

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Pablo Picasso

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Pablo Picasso


John Berryman Quotes
American - Poet October 25, 1914 - January 7, 1972

We must travel in the direction of our fear.
John Berryman

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
John Berryman

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
John Berryman

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
John Berryman

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
John Berryman


Rusty Schweickart Quotes
American - Astronaut Born: October 25, 1935

All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.
Rusty Schweickart

By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.
Rusty Schweickart

There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.
Rusty Schweickart

When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.
Rusty Schweickart

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.
Rusty Schweickart

It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity.
Rusty Schweickart

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.
Rusty Schweickart

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.
Rusty Schweickart

We got to the moon.
Rusty Schweickart

I don't want people to spend their nights worrying about getting hit by asteroids. But I do want them to encourage their political leaders to invest in the insurance, which will allow us to prevent it from happening.
Rusty Schweickart

The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict a hundred years ahead of time whether there is a likelihood of an impact with Earth.
Rusty Schweickart

As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.
Rusty Schweickart

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
Rusty Schweickart

We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.
Rusty Schweickart

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
Rusty Schweickart

When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has to be coordinated by the international community.
Rusty Schweickart

Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very first time. Facing those challenges of radiation, navigation and life support on a months-long trip millions of miles from home would be a perfect learning journey before a Mars trip.
Rusty Schweickart

It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity.
Rusty Schweickart

Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.
Rusty Schweickart

The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.
Rusty Schweickart

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.
Rusty Schweickart