Ancient Silk Road

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:

“Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven’t the courage to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word ... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The road became a channel running flocks
Of glossy birds like ripples over rocks.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)