All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superflous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
Pablo Picasso
Related The only thing in life that I can count on to be infinitely challenging are human beings. KAYLA MORYOUSSEF What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is ... PABLO PICASSO Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad... DALAI LAMA The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background... DAVE BARRY Along my spiritual, creative, mental and physical journeys - I found only one thing makes all the di... CHELSEA R. BLUES All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of th... JULIA GLASS The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. JEFF RICH Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other thr... ALICE COOPER The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. JAMES BROWN One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different fr... BARBARA JORDAN The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert M... PAUL JOHNSON Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest things ... COLLEEN HOOVER I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of hum... MOTHER ANGELICA It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think ... CHAIM POTOK I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with peop... ISABEL ALLENDE The last thing we want to do is squander away all the resources we have and put salt and sand on the... DAWN EISCHEN Change is the one thing we can be sure of. NAOMI JUDD The one thing that matters is the effort. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty ... WILLIAM GIBSON I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation. JOYCE CAROL OATES The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott. DAVID TRIMBLE The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep. E. W. HOWE All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation. HENRY REED There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. GEORGES BRAQUE As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same ti... DAVID HARE Online, ... if all your pieces look the same, collectors will buy one and move on. I never, ever pai... JEFF COHEN The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire... WILLA CATHER It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. MARY DALY It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God MARY DALY When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing. LAURIE METCALF The one thing you can control is effort. MALIK JACKSON Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. FREYA STARK The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax. WILLIAM FLOYD Human beings are millions of things in one day. NICK HORNBY I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can. KOBE BRYANT When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deser... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father... KENNETH CHENAULT I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that... TADEUSZ BOROWSKI The one thing little people don't like is the 'M' word, 'midget.' MARTIN KLEBBA I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. JOSEPH STALIN As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think ... LAURIE COLWIN I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher pla... CHARLIE CHAPLIN I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher pl... CHARLIE CHAPLIN I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher p... CHARLIE CHAPLIN I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane... CHARLIE CHAPLIN I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane... CHARLIE CHAPLIN Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary ... WILD THING Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a differen... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people sti... ALISON OWEN I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that ... DAVE DAVIES You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what... MAXWELL MALTZ You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what... If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into... VAN GOGH If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into... VINCENT VAN GOGH I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that ... DAVE DAVIES The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to fe... TAKERU KOBAYASHI We are increasingly becoming cyborg-like beings. We are becoming literally what we create. Biology, ... GRAY SCOTT If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight i... GEORGE SANTAYANA What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty t... ALAN GREENSPAN When we hired Scotty Bowman, everything changed. A lot of times one person can have a tremendous eff... MIKE ILITCH Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fe... RONALD ROOD CLEANLINESS FREAKS are one of the most dirtiest beings on Earth! And PERFECTIONISTS, the most boring... LUKHMAN PAMBRA I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one perso... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting a... DAVID HOCKNEY Pablo Picasso drew pictures, but in a different way - cubism. JULIO TORRES Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso PABLO PICASSO The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. SAMUEL SMILES [The] certificate of authenticity ... The work of art described on this certificate is an authentic ... PRINCESS CRUISES The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed. VIN DIESEL We're unified on one issue, and that's the most stunning thing. NATHAN WALKER Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrav... STEVE ERICKSON We as human beings desire much; love, wealth, friendship, etcetera. We as children of God should des... TAURUS MORGAN Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition. NORMAN MAILER In tests with rats, if there is no control, they go nuts. And the same thing is true of human beings... BRUCE LEICHTMAN I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't ... BEBE NEUWIRTH Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity c... HARRY LORAYNE It's one thing to advertise a product on TV. It's another thing to create an ongoing program with co... ANDY JACOBS I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we... ELLEN DEGENERES The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and... JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work a... A. DALCOURT A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and ... JACK FALAHEE Jane Heard. ONE Jeff Davis is one of the most giving and caring human beings I've come across in many years. I know ... JANENE GENTILE We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we ... ANDREA CORR It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the c... GRAHAM GREENE The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or... DAVE BARRY It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work. NASTASSJA KINSKI Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in t... PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in t... PRINCESS DIANA And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com... WENDELL PIERCE If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If it was a five year-old asking me to do "Road Runner" I would have done it easy. But the same peop... JONATHAN RICHMAN The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitio... BANKSY Jewelry is art, wearable art. We don't want to see the same thing on two people. We rarely carry the... LEE DORN You only need one kidney. Doctors say a lot of people are born with one kidney and never know they h... KATHY HOLLEMAN Theres only one thing i admire about emo children, they are the only people that can wear all black,... NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of ... ECKHART TOLLE
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