Posts Tagged quote

The vanity of being quoted

13 September 2009

A friend sent me these links and I am shamelessly posting them here:

My views on the IMF programme for Pakistan – Also here

On visiting Bangladesh as a Pakistani

My art review of Asim Butt’s work

Ghalib in Benaras

On Qurratulain Hyder, the Urdu writer

Princess Zebunnissa

Inhospitable reception given to white women

On the stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh

On the Asian News net

Picasso on indifference

19 March 2009

My dear friend Isa D, has refreshed the memory of this fabulous quote from Pablo Picasso.

This quote is extremely pertinent to the current times when the choices are quite stark and paths unclear. Yet, silence shall not be the right response.

… Artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should  not remain indifferent to a conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.” ~ Picasso

The image on the right is Picasso’s self portrait… courtesy artquotes.net