“Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Skin in the Game
Source: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 214
Variant: Survive today. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.
Source: The Lost Hero
“Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Skin in the Game
Source: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 214
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
The original quote attributed to Picasso in 1951 quotes him as saying that 'even if he were imprisoned, he would draw on the dust-covered prison walls and on the floor, with his fingers dripped in his own spit' (see above). This expansion appears to derive from an interview given by actor Dustin Hoffman to the L.A. Times in 2001.
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/mar/04/entertainment/ca-32985
Disputed
“If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?”
Hank Green (1980) American vlogger
July 24th: More Harry Potter?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfGQ3taOIBg <br class="br">Youtube
“It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.”
Titian (1488–1576) Italian painter
As quoted in The Quotable Artist (2002) by Peggy Hadden, p. 32.
undated quotes
Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter
Rothko, explaining Seitz his new way of painting during the mid-1940s
Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 142
after 1970, posthumous