Pablo Picasso

"My work is like my breathing. It is essential to my existence."

"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist."

"In Barcelona, there is a great deal of architecture in every corner."

"What matters is the work, not the artist's fame or fortune."

"I found painting. Painting found me."

"The world is going fast. Art should go slow."

"I invent nothing, I rediscover."

"The picture of my life with Françoise is like a Raphael Madonna."

"Work is love made visible."

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

"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 found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

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

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"One does not simply paint what one sees or feels. One paints what one wants others to see."

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

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

"When you make a thing, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly, but those that do it after you can make it pretty."

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

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."

"Creativity takes courage."

"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."

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

"Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that we are given to understand."

"I don't believe in coincidence."

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

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."