Francis Picabia Quotes

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

It's important not to think too much about what you do.

When you're out there thinking too much, that's when you can throw the ball away a lot of times. Just play. When I don't think, I have fun.

I find the best birthday plans are the unplanned ones.

I try to not to overanalyze, not to watch myself too much, but to be present in life and in my art. I'm so glad it comes off in that way.

Everybody is going to have their own issues that they bring to the table, but for me, the best thing is just giving over to whatever is there and trusting whatever is there and enjoying it.

It's better to not overthink and let things happen normally instead.

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

I live every day as it comes. I never plan my life.

The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.

The trick is that you have to stay naked. You must be naked.

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each day...children die of hunger.... Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Please do not think we must be solemn in order to meditate. In fact, to meditate well, we have to smile a lot.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen.