I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.

My thoughts are like waffles - the first few don't look so good.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.