Quotes on Happiness - Episode 2

"Happiness is

Focusing On The Good Side"

- Oza Meilleur

I survived my birth, but the pressure from the forceps on my marshmallow skull left me with a crooked head and a partial paralysis.

Not one to dwell on details such as these, I spent some quality time with my right side, waving an arm and a leg, winking away my waking hours, enjoying each movement, and already knowing that half a smile is better than no smile at all.

Later in life, I would come to wonder if Picasso, while going through his Blue Period between 1901 and 1904, had not somehow foreseen my birth and subsequent physical condition during one of his creative trances, thus painting The Old Guitarist.

If this sounds too far fetched, there is no doubt in my mind that I was the inspiration for Nude Queen of the Amazons with Servant, an oil on canvas executed by Picasso a mere ten years following my coming to this world.





Thus I leave you wallowing in your thoughts with a quote from the master himself, who took the secret of his inspiration for such great works of art to his grave.

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things."

- Pablo Picasso