Posted by: Cheope
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Celebrities)
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
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Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
I was mad amongst the mad. The mad were deeply mad, some of them were very intellingent. Some of my greatest friendships were born there.
The mad are fun, unlike the demential, that are all out, in the world. I met the demential later on, when I got out!
Suffering is caused by a spiritual stagnation, by a psychic sterility. Faith, hope, love and knowledge are what the patient needs for living. No one is really cured if they are not able to reach a religious attitude.
"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid. It's a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.
It's not the face that strikes you, but the expressions... it's not the body that we like, but the way in which he moves... it's not usually the body that attacts us... but the way someone does something.
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
I leave woman in her paradise, the thorns of the rose are too prickly.>
The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in whyich it has been able to bear them. As a consequence everything that the world has always taken seriously is the comical side of things.