Pablo Picasso

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way."

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history."

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

"Creativity takes courage."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"Picasso is Spanish, I am Spanish too."

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"It took me a lifetime to learn to paint like a child."

"A person can't yield to be broken. It's impossible to be broken. You either die or you don't."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist once you grow up."

"I paint the way some people write their autobiography."

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself."

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

"I obey only my own instincts and intuitions."

"Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice."

"There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time."

"You don't make art, you find it."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."