Pablo Picasso

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

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

"My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will be a general; if you are a monk, you will end up as the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"Anything the mind of man can conceive, he can create."

"Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist."

"Every child is born an artist. The problem is staying an artist as we grow up."

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something."

"I don't wait for the perfect moment. I seize the moment and make it perfect."

"Art cannot be made alone or for oneself."

"If all the ways I have been along were marked by posts and plans, I would prefer to have nothing to do with them."

"Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write."

"I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso."

"Youth has no age."

"In art, intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be present."

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

"A painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen."

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird?"

"The feet of the clay must be clay and their joints clay."

"I see you everywhere I go. You are the light and you are the darkness."

"Every act of love is an act of courage."

"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions."

"Do you know what it is to be a color in a world of grays?"

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he possesses the freedom to be puzzled by the questions."

"Time is a gift from God. We cannot waste it or delay."

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

"Fantasy and love are in the stars above us."

"In the new art people look for reasons to understand it."

"Lovers without reproach will be looked at with suspicious eyes."

"It is the goal of the very old to find the world so formed that they can die."