💬 Quotes

"I have been in the midst of those rough hounds, upon the mountains, whither he had threatened to carry me. But none of them stirred my tongue, no, not a dog moved his tongue."

"O the wonderful power of God that I should be able to sit down in such a desolate place; and that none of them should hurt me."

"Before I knew what captivity was, I was wont to say, it would be easy for more than such a loss, what were all our English and American losses, but if I were once stripped of my children, and kin, and all, and should have to go among the heathen, I should die."

"And now I must go with them, taking along with me my wounded child, whom I was forced to carry in my arms, mourning over my dead and dying child."

"I hope I can truly say in some measure, It is good for me that I have been afflicted. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy word."

"Picasso's artistic development is not a linear progression from one style to another, but a simultaneous exploration of multiple modes of representation that constantly feed into and interrogate one another."

"In Cubism, the traditional window of the canvas is shattered, forcing the viewer to construct the subject from a multiplicity of viewpoints in time and space."

"For Picasso, the act of creation is inherently an act of destruction; to invent a new form, he had to dismantle the received conventions of visual tradition."

"The monstrous and the beautiful coexist in Picasso's late work, reflecting a profound tension between the vitality of creation and the inescapable reality of aging and mortality."

"Object and space are no longer treated as separate entities in Picasso's synthetic constructions; they are mutually constitutive, bound together by line and plane."

"Biography and myth are inextricably fused in Picasso's oeuvre, where the artist continually casts himself as protagonist, minotaur, and creator."

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

"Chaos often takes the form of order; yet order can be an even more terrible chaos."

"As happened to Columbus, the hero is certain to be shipwrecked on the shore of the new world which he has discovered."

"The child born in 1900 would, a priori, be trained for a world different from any that ever existed."

"Practical politics consists in ignoring the facts."

"All experience is an arch, to build upon outward, closer to the unknown, deeper into the dark."

"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice."

"A pilot, in those days, was the only unfettered and entirely independent human being that lived in the earth."

"The grace, the beauty, the poetry had departed out of the magnificent river; it had been degraded into a commercial highway."