Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Picasso

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

Pablo Picasso

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

Pablo Picasso

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further...

Pablo Picasso

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

Paul Scott

English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

Paul Stanley

I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

Paul Mooney

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

Paul Mooney

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

Paul Hindemith

Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

Paul Johnson

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

Paul Brunton

Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.

Paul Cezanne

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

Paul Cezanne

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Paul Cezanne

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

Paul Cezanne

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

Paul Cezanne

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

Patterson Hood

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

Patti Page

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

Patsy Kensit

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

Patti LuPone

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

Patti LuPone

It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

Patti LuPone

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.

Patti LuPone

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

Patricia McConnell

One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay the price.

Oscar Wilde

Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

Oscar Wilde

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Oscar Wilde

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

Oscar Wilde

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Oscar Wilde

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Jana Kramer

Gradually, people are connecting with my music, and that means the world to me.

For taxpayers, it means doing your taxes twice.

Jack O'Connell

The way America appreciates cinema is different from anywhere in the world. It's celebrated and supported. I don't just mean by the individuals, but financially as well people are throwing money at certain projects.