We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
—Pablo Picasso
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
—Pablo Picasso
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner.. If I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Effort is needed for every act of self-restraint, but the restraint of your tongue requires the most effort. It’s also the most necessary.
—Leo Tolstoy
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Hold your tongue; you won’t understand anything.
If there is no God, then I am God.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky