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Francis Picabia Quotes

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Francis Picabia

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: french
Birth: January 22, 1879 - November 30, 1953

Topics

Man Youth Old Man Place Others Old

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

Creativity Creative People Rules

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

John F. Kennedy

Children Care Minds Plumbing See

I'm as left-wing as you can get.

John Mellencamp

You Get Left-Wing

Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

Justice Responsibility Law Go Living

Obama came in really wanting to change things, but he hit a wall of corporate money, oil and coal money: when he tried to pass the Cap and Trade system of pharmaceutical money, when he tried to pass the Obamacare - which, of course, then got watered down into a much less effective, much less economical, program.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Change Money Down Wall Oil Cap

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

Me Win Someone Young Say Boy

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Mind Buildings Want Monuments Become

When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that wasn't what an artist was supposed to do. In funding my own music, I found my voice.

Music Voice Someone Doing Artist

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

Me Never Excited Applause Praises

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

Me Guitar Now Piano Acoustic

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

Sunset People Me Looking Play Sugar

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

Money Giving Seeing Satisfaction Out

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