“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quote in "Picasso", Hans L. C. Jaffe, Thames and Hudson Ltd
Attributed from posthumous publications
“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) American writer, journalist
“The Sitters” (p. 73); originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1958
Short Fiction, Skirmish (1977)
“I do not see why I should e'er turn back”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
"Into My Own", st. 4 (1913)
General sources
Context: p>I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.They would not find me changed from him they knew —
Only more sure of all I thought was true.</p
P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) Indian politician
On his purported deep interest in astrological predictions.
While nobody was opening their mouths in other parties, mouths were wide open in the Congress
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
Source: From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
Robin Hartshorne (1938) American mathematician
Robin Hartshorne Fine Art, fineartstudioonlione.com http://robinfaso.fineartstudioonline.com/about
“I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?”
Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 60e