quotes for picnik photos

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. ~Pablo Picasso


The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager


God and other artists are always a little obscure. ~Oscar Wilde


What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade


In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual. ~Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle


I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird


It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. ~Dylan Thomas


Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. ~Gloria Steinem


When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better." ~Alistair Cooke When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better." ~Alistair Cooke When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day. ~Congo Proverb


Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail. ~Astrid Alauda


I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712


If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown


I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. "Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it." She looks up and gives me her full gaze. "Don't be ridiculous," she purrs, "I wrote it." ~Dilys Laing, "Miao"


Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~George Colman


As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ~Voltaire


The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. ~Herbert Spencer


In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll


Envy is ignorance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854