Blow

Famous quotes containing the word blow:

    Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manoeuver, a blow with an agreement.
    Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

    “The wind doth blow today, my love,”
    And a few small drops of rain;
    I never had but one true love,
    In cold grave she was lain.
    Unknown. The Unquiet Grave (l. 1–4)

    To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow ... the coup de grĂ¢ce for the painter as well as for the picture.
    Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)