“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Source: Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
Ian Cameron Esslemont book Return of the Crimson Guard
To ask why is to impose expectations on mute existence - expectations it is in no way obliged to meet or even extend. And so I make no more, ask no more.
Return of the Crimson Guard (2008)
“There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.”
Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005) American artist
Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978
Markiplier (1989) American YouTuber and Internet personality
Video game commentary, Ao Oni (August 2013)
“Why try to pursue what is completed?”
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Source: The Master and Margarita
“Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?”
Artemus Ward (1834–1867) American writer
Moses, the Sassy.
Ricardo Semler (1959) Brazilian businessman
TED: "How to run a company with (almost) no rules" https://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_company_with_almost_no_rules/ (October 2014)
Robert N. Proctor (1954) American historian
Source: Value-free science?: Purity and power in modern knowledge, 1991, p. 13
“Who, or why, or which, or what,
Is the Akond of Swat?”
Edward Lear (1812–1888) British artist, illustrator, author and poet
The Akond of Swat http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/akond.html, l. 1 (1877).
