Pablo Picasso

"Painting is an island surrounded by doubt."

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a painter someday, or even a great painter, but then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."

"The truth is that every intelligent man is sick of today. And the greater the intelligence the greater the sickness."

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best."

"To create a little flower is the labour of ages."

"Money is the kind of life that someone makes."

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

"Passion makes the old medicine boxes look new."

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."

"In Africa, sculpture is functional. Here it is turned into art."

"I don't believe in western religions."

"What is important in a work of art is not its appearance but the idea it conveys."

"The point of departure of the creative act is in some neurotic state."

"I like to lie and to dream."

"The difference between me and the surrealists is that I am a surrealist."

"I'm always looking for something new, something I've never done before. That's the only way I enjoy painting."

"It's not enough to know what Picasso paints; we must know why."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Art is meant to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

"The public who look at any picture are co-creators of the finished work."

"When I was a child, my mother said to me that life is like a battle. If you want to live you have got to be a fighter. But I think it is only when we come to really understand the great game of life that we live most fully."

"Technique is important, but only technique won't do it."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"Bad artists imitate, good artists steal, great artists transform what they borrow."

"The worst evil is to surrender to the circumstances."

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that helps us to realize truth."

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

"Everyone who wants to understand painting must learn the language of it."

"The work one does is a portrait of oneself."

"Every moment is an expression of existence. We must learn to live it fully."