Will Durant (1885-1981)
William James Durant (/dəˈrænt/; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his 11-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Will Durant
Happiness
¶ Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
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| Durant in 1967 |
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant
Jean Metzinger
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (French: [mɛtsɛ̃ʒe]; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Jean Metzinger
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| Metzinger, before 1913 |
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Metzinger
B. C. Forbes
Bertie Charles Forbes (/fɔːrbz/; May 14, 1880 – May 6, 1954) was a Scottish-American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by B.C. Forbes or B. C. Forbes
@ It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration that moves men and women to bestir themselves to rise to higher and higher achievement. Individual success is to be won in most instances by studying and diagnosing the kind of rewards human hearts seek today and are likely to seek tomorrow.
@ The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.
@ If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
¶ Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselling and scraping and polishing.
This quote is a metaphorical way of saying that building a career is not a one-time design process like an architect’s work, but a continuous process of refinement and improvement, much like a sculptor’s work.
¶ Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: "My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind."
¶ A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.[2]
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._C._Forbes
[2] http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/b-c-forbes
Sholem Asch (Yiddish: שלום אַש, Polish: Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.[1]
Memory
@ Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. [Sholem Asch, The Nazarene.]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholem_Asch
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso, (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso is commonly regarded, along with Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; during the first decade of the 20th century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th century art.
Quotes·Quotation by Pablo Picasso
¶ "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
This quote suggests that art plays a vital role in human life, serving as a kind of cleansing for the soul, helping us to keep our inner selves clear and vibrant amidst the complexities of everyday life.
¶ Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
¶ Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
¶ "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
This quote, often attributed to Pablo Picasso, suggests that painting can serve as a personal record of one’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences, much like a diary.
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| Picasso in 1908 |
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| La Vie (1903), Cleveland Museum of Art |
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
