“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“i am always doing things i can't do. that's how i get to do them.”
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“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Attributed in Civilization's Quotations : Life's Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 132, and many places on the internet, this was actually stated by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Anthon van Rappard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthon_van_Rappard (18 August 1885) http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let528/letter.html, also rendered "I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it." <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman
Statement published in A Year of Beautiful Thoughts (1902) by Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, p. 172, Third statement for June 11. This has often been misattributed to Helen Keller in some published works since at least 1980, perhaps because she somewhere quoted it.
Variant:
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts (1909) by Edwin Osgood Grover, p. 28; also in Masterpieces of Religious Verse (1948) by James Dalton Morrison, p. 416, where it is titled "Lend a Hand"
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
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Song lyrics, Controversy (1981)
Bertie Ahern (1951) Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
At the Mahon Tribunal on 20 September 2007. Planning Tribunal Transcript http://www.planningtribunal.ie/images/SITECONTENT_738.pdf planningtribunal.ie. 2007-09-20.
Aimee Mann (1960) American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)
"How Am I Different" (co-written with Jon Brion) · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7gUnN7yxo <br class="br">Song lyrics, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo (2000)